Bracket Madness of a Different Sort: Firm Scores University Breaches - montanomingat79

For millions of Americans, March means brackets—the kind found in the NCAA men's hoops tourney—but for the threat watchers at Application Security's TeamShatter, it means brackets of a different kind: breach brackets.

In the spirit of "Butt Madness," the security firm puts together its brackets for colleges that lost the most data due to breaches in the previous yr.

Ironically, the school that stood alone at the pinch of TeamShatter's breach brackets fielded last year's Cinderella team in the real NCAA basketball tournament: Virginia Country, which went from a 11th sough to the Final Four.

In 2011, TeamShatter said, VCU suffered the largest information breach of any U.S. institution of higher encyclopaedism when hackers, connected November 11, compromised 176,567 records containing personal information about circulating and former VCU and VCU Health System faculty, staff, students and affiliates.

The data breaches at the other members of the "Terminal Four" didn't even arrive roughly VCU. Wisconsin Milwaukee, which VCU tucker out for the title, had a 79,000 record breach; Yale, 43,000 records; and South Carolina, 31,000 records.

According to TeamShatter, VCU was the 21st school of higher learnedness to suffer a rupture of more than 100,000 records since 2005. End-to-end the years, the winners of the terror firm's exercise in bracketology have enclosed some basketball game powerhouses, such as Ohio State (2010), North Carolina (2009) and UCLA (2006).

The proficient news program for universities is that the number of information breaches for the year, 48, and the number of records compromised, 478,490, is the lowest it has been since 2005. And piece VCU May give been top dog in 2011, its data breach didn't even make the threat company's top 10 list.

Every bit encouraging as the breach numbers from 2011 were, one year does not make a slue. In point of fact, primaeval signs for 2012 indicate 2011 May have been an anomaly in this data set, with Arizona State, which saw 300,000 records compromised in January, already coverage what would be the fourth highest breach since 2005.

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