Uni Sends A Database to Everyone From the List
Uni Sends A Database to Everyone From the List | |
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Short Title | University Mistakenly Emailed 1000+ People With a Spreadsheet Including Personal Information of Students |
Location | Australia |
Date | September 2020 |
Solove Harm | Insecurity, Increased Accessibility |
Information | Identifying, Professional, Contact, Demographic |
Threat Actors | An unindicated univerity, a university worker |
Individuals | |
Affected | Students |
High Risk Groups | Students |
Tangible Harms |
A university worker mistakenly sent a database with personal information of more than a thousand students to everyone, who's information was in the database.
Description
A person posted that they got an email from their university that was sent to more than a thousand people and included a spreadsheet with full names, dates of birth, home addresses, personal email addresses, contact numbers and enrolment details of everyone to whom the email was sent. This is an example of Insecurity and Increased Accessibility.
The email was followed by another saying "Oops, don't open that last email we sent!”
Breakdown
Threat: University colleague mistakenly sending a database with personal information of students to everyone from that database
At-Risk group: Students from the database
Harm: Insecurity
Secondary Consequences: not known
Threat: University making personal information of students easily accessible and searchable through a database
At-Risk group: Students from the database
Harm: Increased Accessibility
Secondary Consequences: not known
Laws and Regulations
Sources
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/io0zzc/my uni just emailed 1000 people a spreadsheet/