The Pennsylvania College of Technology is a public university located in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The university caters to approximately 4,500 students annually. The school recently discovered a data breach issue that compromised the data of a few key students.
Somehow, the Pennsylvania College of Technology managed to print private data for several of its students onto the mailing label for its Spring 2022 and Spring 2023 alumni publications. This means that personal data about a few people were sent to the whole audience that receives the alumni magazines from the school. It's a pretty serious data breach for the people involved. The Social Security number was printed as an unformatted number, and it may not be obvious to the readers what the number represents.
This Penn College data breach took place on February 23, 2023. At that time, the school realized the error occurred and that the information was being sent out to everyone.
This Penn College data breach impacted a few individuals whose information was included on the mailing label sent out to everyone. Only a few students were included, and nobody else was.
No files were accessed at the Pennsylvania College of Technology as a result of this breach. The confidential and private information that was given out was already held by the school, and it was published for everyone with access to the magazine to see freely. No private file access was required to get the information.