College of Science: Massive Data Leak

guest · Feb 7, 2019

College of Science: Massive Data Leak
February 5, 2019
https://thepolypost.com/news/2019/02/05/massive-data-leak/

Human error caused a massive leak of personal information of all active students in the College of Science. On Jan. 29, the campus community was notified via email of the leak.

Inadvertently, the employee also attached an Excel spreadsheet containing personal information of all 4,557 active students in the College of Science.
Information including names, addresses, academic standing, CPP email, Bronco ID, gender, ethnicity, GPA and other data was included in the spreadsheet, but no Social Security numbers or dates of birth were leaked, according to Lynch.

“Once it goes off our platform, we lose custody of that chain of information,” Lynch said.
“I think it’s a little bit absurd that someone can make a mistake that big,” he said. “I’m not particularly concerned about the information that was leaked. What concerns me is that they did let our information slip out, period.”
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guest · Feb 8, 2019

Student gets creative with data accidentally blasted out by university
February 8, 2019
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/20...-data-accidentally-blasted-out-by-university/

The polytechnic university, based in Pomona, California, inadvertently emailed personal information on all of its College of Science students to almost 1,000 people late last month.

A student who received the information tipped off the Office of Admission and Enrollment Planning 30 minutes after the mail went out, and staff deleted the email on CPP servers within ten minutes.
Over on Reddit, ‘Billy Bronco The Spy’ crunched the numbers in the spreadsheet and used a throwaway account to produce a set of infographics drilling down into student statistics.

CPP, which hasn’t posted anything about the incident on its website or social media accounts, didn’t immediately return our request for comment. However, the Poly Post quotes staff saying that the personal information cannot be used to log into students’ accounts.
When it comes to data breaches, this isn’t CPP’s first rodeo. In 2003, it mistakenly put information about 355 student applicants in a publicly accessible folder that went undetected for five years.
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