Columbia University Data Breach (2012)
Columbia University
lowVERIS
Disclosed
March 10, 2012
5130 days ago
Records
3.5K
Confirmed
Root Cause
Human Error
Industry
Education
Description
File was exposed on internet facing server and eventually indexed by Google. It contained 3500 current and former employees and sole proprietor contractor's names, addresses, bank account numbers, SSNs.