Former NYU Students Exposed to Identity Theft for a Year
Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business has been notifying 273 former New York University students that some of their personal information could have been easily accessed trough specific Internet searcher for almost a year, July 2007 and April 2008.
According to the News&Observer, the data someone could have retrieved on those affected included names and Social Security numbers and was stored in the faculty member’s research records. The article also quotes Duke officials stating no form of unauthorized access or use of the personal information has been identified.
The personal information was removed from Fuqua’s public drives within 30 minutes of the school becoming aware of the problem on April 30. Within hours, all major search engines had cleared their caches and indexes of the student information, the press release states.
