Illinois College Suffers Data Breach

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Illinois College Suffers Data Breach
March 16, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/illinois-college-suffers-data/

An Illinois college is offering nearly free credit monitoring to over 1,700 current and former employees following a recent data breach.

Officials at the College of DuPage confirmed on Monday that a cybersecurity incident had taken place recently.
College president Brian Caputo said that personal and tax information belonging to 1,755 staff had been compromised. Data exposed in the incident included 2018 W-2 tax forms.

Caputo added that in a bid to prevent any future breaches, additional procedural safeguards have been implemented.
An investigation into how the breach occurred is yet to produce any conclusive results.
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College of DuPage data security breach could affect 1,700 current, former employees

"However, the responsibility to protect private information is taken very seriously," Caputo said in a statement. "Therefore, the college is notifying the affected individuals out of an abundance of caution."

As an added precaution, the college has arranged for credit monitoring and identity protection services to be provided for free to those impacted.
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