Recently, the University of Iowa State became a victim of a brutal incident of data breach. The incident resulted in about the leakage of 30,000 records of current students as well as of the former students. Almost 28,000 students got their social security number compromised and about 19,000 of the students got their student identity breached. All the victims have been informed by the university officials of the hazardous incident that the University of Iowa State recently have met with. The IT department of the university told that five servers of different departments have been attacked and spilt out students’ information.
The officials of the State of Iowa believe that the intention of the attacks was not to steal students’ information, but, they want to infect more and more computers possible. Although, there no signs that the data have been accessed, but still, the students that have been hit by this data breach were informed via mail. Further, they have been offered free credit monitoring of the exposed social security numbers. The data that has been compromised contained the records of students that have been a part of university in the span of 1995 to 2012.
The Iowa State officials have taken a quick action on this incident. The Senior Vice President said that the state has never taken the issue of data security lightly. He apologized to the victim and said that unfortunately, the servers of the university are not immune from hack attacks. However, if they had used reliable Encryption Software to protect their records, they would not have been regretting the incident. The compromised social security numbers and university IDs can be used to perform a number of fraudulent activities. The University of Iowa State and the students whom information has been compromised have to careful in the future and have to keep a keen eye on different activities going around them.
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