Yale Continues to Fuck Up, Loses 10,000+ SSNs

by Andrew Nusca | August 8, 2007 at 10:11 pm

Yale Continues to Fuck Up, Loses 10,000+ SSNsThey say 80 percent of success is just showing up, but in the age of the hacker, it might be closer to 100. According to Yale officials in the Yale Daily News, the social security numbers for more than 10,000 current and former students, faculty and staff were compromised last month following the theft of two university computers.

In case you were wondering, the computers were stolen from the Yale College Dean's Office -- hey, did someone forget to lock the door? -- on July 17. Apparently the 'puters were password-protected, but we're hedging our bets that the password is "h@rv@rd$uck$01" or something. Yale says the computers were probably stolen to be sold, as if the computers in university administrative offices are worth far more than the MacBook Pros and the Dell XPS laptops that students regularly leave lying around campus.

Um, yeah. Oh, and the kicker?

"The lost files had not been maintained for any purpose," Yale spokesman Tom Conroy said in the Yale Daily News, "but were overlooked in the University's efforts at reducing the amount of personal information it holds."

Um, nice work, guys. Spring cleaning ended months ago. Of course, Yale sent out letters warning individuals to check bank and credit reports, but chances are whoever made off with the numbers -- which probably includes Aleksey Vayner's and suddenly justifies the theft -- is already high-tailin' it for the border...or Cambridge. (Or Princeton?) -- ANDREW NUSCA

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