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August 02, 2006, 01:53 PM ET
Another University Zeroes Out SS Numbers
After acknowledging that thousands of students’ Social Security numbers were stored on a professor’s stolen laptop (The Chronicle, August 1), California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo has decided to stop using the numbers to identify students. Incoming students this fall will be given customized ID codes by the university, reports The Tribune, in San Luis Obispo.
Hardware thefts like the one in San Luis Obispo have accounted for about 15 percent of the computer-security breaches reported since the beginning of 2005, according to a USA Today report. A few of the hacking incidents reported over the past year and a half have been perpetrated by students hoping to change their grades or otherwise hoodwink their professors, says the newspaper. But as CIO’s know by now, hackers are much more likely to be stashing pirated movie files than to be trawling for specific bits of information. —Brock Read
Categories: Leadership, Security
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