Well, This Sucks
June 23, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Today our friends at Cornell found out something kind of bad happened. By "something kind of bad happened" we mean that their "confidential personal information was stolen." And by "friends" we mean "45,000 current and former staff and students." Yeah, that sucks. According to the website Cornell set up to deal with this crisis:
In June 2009, a Cornell-owned computer that contained a large amount of administrative data was stolen. Our review of a current backup of the files on the system revealed that confidential personal data for about 45,000 current and former staff and students, and some dependents, had been present.The good news is that the data hasn't been misused...yet. And that Cornell is picking up the tab for any and all "credit reporting, credit monitoring and identity theft restoration services." Here's to hoping Penn has a more secure system.