Data Loss Source: Parents of Metro Nashville students will receive letters outlining a security breach that put their children’s Social Security numbers online for three months.
Date of Breach: March 5, 2009
Size of Loss : 18,541
Affected Individuals: Metro Nashville students
Geographic Focus: Nashville, TN
Data contained: Student names, gender, race or ethnicity, date of birth, Social Security number and parent names.
Additional Notes: Boston-based Public Consulting Group Inc., which holds a five-year, $2.6-million-a-year contract with the state to collect student data from various districts, corrected the error March 31 after a parent using Google to search her daughter’s name found it — along with personal data for the students and 6,000 parent names. The consulting group will pay for parents of affected children to check all family members’ credit reports and for a year of monitoring.
Additional Information: The Tennessean