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1 Million Individuals’ Personal Data on Backup Drive is Stolen from Washington State University

By Linn Foster Freedman on June 22, 2017
Posted in Data Breach

File this story in the category of even locking data up in a safe is not secure.

Washington State University (WSU) has begun to notify approximately 1 million individuals that their personal data was compromised when a back-up drive that contained the information was stolen from a safe located in the IT Department. The individuals…

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