A contractor serving the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA) committed a programming error, which led to private documents being sent to the wrong people.
A laptop stolen from the University of South Carolina's physics and astronomy department contained names, email addresses, and Social Security numbers of students.
The personal information of former patients and employees at the Mental Health Institute in Independence, Iowa, as well as workers at other state facilities, may have been exposed after a backup computer tape went missing.
A former student, who previously pleaded guilty to hacking compromising university computers, is accused of downloading the unencrypted personal data of students on a thumb drive.
The sensitive information of several thousand individuals training to become Florida teachers was inadvertently made available online by a university that was handling the data.
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