University of Hawaii Settles with 98,000 Over Five Breaches
SC Magazine reports the University of Hawaii (UH) has settled a class-action data breach lawsuit brought by nearly 100,000 students, faculty, alumni and staff, according to the plaintiffs’ lawyers. The suit relates to five breaches in all, including one involving the inadvertent posting online of personal information by a faculty member who accidentally uploaded sensitive files to an unencrypted web server. Details included names, Social Security numbers, addresses, birth dates and educational data. In another incident, hackers gained access to a UH at Manoa parking office computer server that contained the personal data of 53,000 individuals, including 40,870 Social Security numbers and 200 credit card numbers.
