Students at Broward Colleges might be an Identity Theft Risk
24,000 Broward summer school students have had their sensitive information accidentally released onto the internet after a computer upgrade. The information was available for five days in late May and early June on the internet unprotected. The breach was the fault of The College Center for Library Automation, which provides library services and electronic resources to Florida’s community colleges.
The people who were effected by the breach are going to be receiving letters outlining the situation and will provide information on how to place fraud alerts on their credit files to lessen the chance of an Identity theft. The College Center for Library Automation provides services to several other colleges in the state and statewide there were about 126,000 students, faculty and staff that were affected by the glitch.
No one so far has suffered any damages associated with the breach. Students, faculty and staff are still advised to place the fraud alerts on the three major credit reports and renew them every 90 days for the next couple of years.
