Fresno State data breach, 15,000 affected!!

Fresno State data breach, 15,000 affected!!

This article relates to the data breach of the California State University, Fresno. According to the article, “the personal information of more than 15,000 people” have been compromised. The information includes, “names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, full or last four digits of Social Security numbers, credit-card numbers, driver’s license numbers, passport numbers, user names and passwords, health-insurance numbers, and personal health information.” The cause of the data beach is due to the stolen external hard drive. The university believes that the hard drive was stolen during the winter break.
Further, another article suggested, ‘School officials began contacting affected individuals on Tuesday. Free credit monitoring for one year will be offered to people whose Social Security number, financial account information or driver’s license number was exposed.”

https://www.scmagazine.com/fresno-state-data-breach-15000-affected/article/749459/
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/03/06/fresno-state-university-data-breach-stolen-hard-drive/