Brigham Young University

The personal information of hundreds of international students at Brigham Young University was inadvertently released by email.

The message was sent by a staff member in the University Advisement Center who was sending out a notice of a career workshop but attacked a complete list of students with personal information.

The details included the students’ names, email addresses, phone numbers and student ID numbers of all 1,300 international students.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/1300-brigham-young-university-students-information-released-accidentally/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/brigham-young-university

"id": "bri21381123",
"linkid": "brigham-young-university",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "03/2012",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 1300,
                        'industry': 'Education',
                        'name': 'Brigham Young University',
                        'type': 'Educational Institution'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Email',
 'data_breach': {'number_of_records_exposed': 1300,
                 'personally_identifiable_information': ['Names',
                                                         'Email Addresses',
                                                         'Phone Numbers',
                                                         'Student ID Numbers'],
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personally Identifiable '
                                              'Information']},
 'description': 'The personal information of hundreds of international '
                'students at Brigham Young University was inadvertently '
                'released by email. The message was sent by a staff member in '
                'the University Advisement Center who was sending out a notice '
                'of a career workshop but attached a complete list of students '
                'with personal information. The details included the students’ '
                'names, email addresses, phone numbers and student ID numbers '
                'of all 1,300 international students.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Names',
                                 'Email Addresses',
                                 'Phone Numbers',
                                 'Student ID Numbers']},
 'motivation': 'Accidental',
 'threat_actor': 'Internal Staff',
 'title': 'Data Breach at Brigham Young University',
 'type': 'Data Breach',
 'vulnerability_exploited': 'Human Error'}