Texas A&M University Corpus Christi Data Breach

Authorities at Texas A&M University are looking to hire technicians to protect their school from falling victim to yet another security breach.

In June of 2007, a flash drive with 8,000 students’ information was lost. A month later, a class roster with 49 students’ information was misplaced as well. A hacker had access to the university server on September of this year, and now, less than three months later, a student was able to access a document through an internet search that contained her own Social Security number and personal information, as well as the information of over 1,400 past and present students of the university.

This document listed applicants for admissions from all the way back to 2005, and upon knowledge of the file being available, officials shut down the site and removed the document. It is unknown how long the information had been posted and who had had access to the file before the student discovered the unprotected file.

This is the fourth time in two years that Texas A&M has had a data breach, and they are taking the steps to investigate and perhaps eliminate the possibility of another breach happening again. Needless to say students should consider identity theft protection.