Seton Hall University

The personal information of 1,500 seniors of Seton Hall University was compromised in an e-mail attachment and was accidentally sent to 400 students.

The e-mail attachment had an Excel spreadsheet and listed the students’ names, home addresses, e-mail addresses, student identification numbers, majors, credit hours and grade point averages, Security Incident” e-mail.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/nj-private-seton-hall-university-student-data-exposed-in-e-mail/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/seton-hall-university

"id": "set21541123",
"linkid": "seton-hall-university",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "11/2010",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"

{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 1500,
                        'industry': 'Education',
                        'name': 'Seton Hall University',
                        'type': 'Educational Institution'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Accidental Email Sending',
 'data_breach': {'file_types_exposed': ['Excel Spreadsheet'],
                 'number_of_records_exposed': 1500,
                 'personally_identifiable_information': ['Names',
                                                         'Home Addresses',
                                                         'Email Addresses',
                                                         'Student '
                                                         'Identification '
                                                         'Numbers'],
                 'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
                 'type_of_data_compromised': ['Personal Information',
                                              'Educational Information']},
 'description': 'The personal information of 1,500 seniors of Seton Hall '
                'University was compromised in an e-mail attachment and was '
                'accidentally sent to 400 students. The e-mail attachment had '
                'an Excel spreadsheet and listed the students’ names, home '
                'addresses, e-mail addresses, student identification numbers, '
                'majors, credit hours, and grade point averages.',
 'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Names',
                                 'Home Addresses',
                                 'Email Addresses',
                                 'Student Identification Numbers',
                                 'Majors',
                                 'Credit Hours',
                                 'Grade Point Averages']},
 'motivation': 'Accidental',
 'title': 'Seton Hall University Data Breach',
 'type': 'Data Breach'}