{"id":7098,"date":"2015-02-18T22:55:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T06:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7098"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:24:33","slug":"umaine-loses-600-student-records-ssns-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7098","title":{"rendered":"UMaine loses 600+ student records, SSNs, etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[A physics professor at University of Maine was the victim of theft on February 10th.\u00a0 His laptop was stolen from his checked baggage for a flight from Seattle to Boston.\u00a0 Unfortunately, while the laptop was \"password protected\", the sensitive data was actually on a removable media card which was not encrypted.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunjournal.com\/files\/imagecache\/story_large\/2010\/06\/29\/umaine%20logo_0.jpg\" alt=\"UMaine Logo\" width=\"317\" height=\"231\" \/>\nUMaine&#8217;s spokesperson Margaret Nagle has emphasized that university employees are individually responsible for ensuring proper handling and storage of sensitive data whom receive annually required training sessions.\u00a0 Though, the university does not have explicit data-security policies which require encryption nor purging of sensitive data after it is no longer needed.\nOnly three years ago, UMaine suffered the loss of 1,175 student social security numbers when the local campus computer store was breached by hackers in 2012.\nUMaine plans to notify the affected students and offer them a year of identity theft monitoring protection.\n]>\t\t\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"3","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"3","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"2","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[76,77,78,79],"class_list":["post-7098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaches","tag-breach","tag-ferpa","tag-laptop","tag-umaine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7914,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7098\/revisions\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}