Each day, organizations collect increasing amounts of data to better perform business functions. With that ever-growing amount of information, however, comes increased threats to enterprise data protection.
For example, Butler University informed students this week that an outside actor may have stolen personal information related to more than 160,000 students, staff, alumni and applicants of the school. Compromised files included names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and bank account information. The scope of the breach is so large, alumni affected include those who graduated as far back 1983, according to Butler spokesperson Mark Allan.
Law enforcement authorities contact Butler officials on May 28 and informed them that they were investigating possible identity theft involving individuals with ties to the university, and that a data breach may have occurred in 2013. The investigation started in California where a "suspect had in his possession a flash drive containing the information of certain Butler University employees," according to a letter released by Butler president Jim Danko.
The university hired outside investigators who confirmed the school's network had been compromised in November 2013, and remained vulnerable until May of this year.
"Higher education continues to struggle with protecting personally identifiable information and in some cases the integrity of their digital grade book and records management systems," Rook Security CEO J.J. Thompson said in a statement. "Not only is it bad news if a breach is detected by a third party-as in the case with Butler-but it's especially bad it it's not able to be detected in-house and instead is identified through the police or FBI."
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