Earlier this month, Missouri State University announced a data breach that affected 6,030 students in its College of Education. During October and November 2010, students' names and Social Security numbers were posted on an unsecure server connected to the Internet.
The affected students studied at the College of Education during 2005 through 2009. Reportedly, the university learned about the breach on February 22, 2011 when a person contacted the university about the breach.
As a result, the univeristy has disciplined the employee who posted the information online, worked with Google to remove the sensitive data from the search engine's web servers, provided affected consumers with complientary identity-theft insurance, and reported the breach to the Missouri Attorney General's office as required by law.
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