The students’ personal information – names, postal and email addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and students’ academic information of Auburn University was exposed on Internet.
The university offered those affected by the incident a two years of Experian ProtectMyID Alert service.
Approximately 364,012 individuals were affected by the incident
Source: https://www.databreaches.net/httpocm-auburn-edudatasecurity/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/auburn-university
"id": "aub17592123",
"linkid": "auburn-university",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "04/2015",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': '364,012',
'industry': 'Education',
'name': 'Auburn University',
'type': 'Educational Institution'}],
'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': '364,012',
'personally_identifiable_information': ['names',
'postal addresses',
'email addresses',
'dates of birth',
'Social Security '
'numbers'],
'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personal Information',
'Academic Information']},
'description': 'The students’ personal information – names, postal and email '
'addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and '
'students’ academic information of Auburn University was '
'exposed on the Internet.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['names',
'postal addresses',
'email addresses',
'dates of birth',
'Social Security numbers',
'students’ academic information']},
'response': {'recovery_measures': 'Offered two years of Experian ProtectMyID '
'Alert service'},
'title': 'Auburn University Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}