2014 — Indiana University: Indiana University announced that the personal data…
Data compromised
Personal information
Technical writeup
Indiana University announced that the personal data of 146,000 students and graduates was breached. The information included their Social Security numbers and addresses and may have affected students and graduates from 2011 to 2014 at seven of its campuses. According to the university The information was not downloaded by an authorized individual looking for specific sensitive data, but rather was accessed by three automated computer data-mining applications, called webcrawlers, used to improve
Root cause
Hacking