24,000 Notre Dame employees affected by data breach
Important personal information, such as social security numbers, names and zip codes, of many Notre Dame employees was exposed to the Internet after the University accidentally placed the information in a publicly accessible location.
The data breach affected about 24,000 employees, including some students who work for the University, Gordon Wishon, associate vice president of information technology and the University’s chief information officer, said.
The personal information that was exposed will no longer be accessible because the University immediately removed it from the Internet and secured it, he said. There was no evidence the information was inappropriately used, Wishon said. But chair of Faculty Senate Thomas Gresik, who was affected by the data breach, said he did not feel sure he was safe from identity theft.
