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SUMMARY

Unknown security breach exposes 130,000 students names and Social Security numbers
Records	130,000
Record Types	SSN NAA DOB
Breach Type	Hack
Data Family	Electronic
Source	Outside
Organization	Eastern Washington University
Other Organizations	None
Lawsuit?	NO/UNKNOWN
Data Recovered?	NO/UNKNOWN
Arrest?	NO/UNKNOWN
Submitted By:	kirniki

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SIMILAR INCIDENTS

records	date	organizations
178,000	2004-03-17	San Diego State University
380,000	2004-05-07	University of California San Diego
120,000	2005-03-17	Boston College
72,000	2005-06-28	University of Connecticut

MAP OF INCIDENT LOCATION

Address: 526 5th St, Cheney, WA 99004, USA
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COSTS SUMMARY

Known Actual Costs

No known costs for this incident.

Estimated Costs

Ponemon Institute Direct Costs Estimate ¹

$7,800,000.00

Note that these estimates are based on the Ponemon Institute's 2009 direct costs figures from their 2009 Annual Study: Cost of a Data Breach. We multiply $60.00 by the number of records to obtain this figure. Keep in mind that depending on the breach, the direct costs are not always suffered by the breached organizations. In the case of credit card number breaches, the direct costs can often be suffered by banks and card issuers. Also note that this is only an estimate.

COMMENTS

by Anonymous on 2010-01-02 (2 months ago)

done through local file inclusion from there i was i mean the hacker was able to execute code remotly and upload a php shell, gain root and sl the sql db, and no the hacker is not going to use the info he has at all for malicious purposes. he had even notified the server admins 4 weeks before even exploiting the site due to boredom.

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Disposal Computer | Disposal Document | Disposal Tape | Disposal Drive
Email | Fraud Se | Hack | Lost Computer
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Stolen Tape | Unknown | Virus | Web