> JapanHacked_
[Resolved][Severity: Major][Lost device]

Kanazawa University: a teacher's laptop was stolen with a bag on a trip to Switzerland, possibly exposing personal data of students, staff and others

A laptop stolen in Lausanne in February may have held about 22,000 personal records, grade data of 889 students and some 226,000 personal records in stored mail.

Disclosed

2020-08-31

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

226.4K

226,392

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. A teacher on a trip to Lausanne, Switzerland had a bag with a laptop stolen. It was reported to local police but has not been found. [1]

  2. The case was reported in the press. [1]

Impact

The laptop may have held 21,945 personal records of students, staff and outside contacts: names, addresses, email addresses, affiliations and student numbers, plus for some phone numbers, careers, photos, grades and review results. [1]

It also held raw grade data of 889 students in 70 courses the teacher taught from 2010 to 2019, and 226,392 personal records in stored mail. [1]

Timeline

  1. Started, Detected 2020-02-29
  2. Disclosed 2020-08-31
  3. 184 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Lost device]
Impact
[Data leak]
Entry point
Unknown

Data exposed or at risk

[Name][Postal address][E-mail address][Phone number][Education]

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][News]海外出張先で個人情報含むPCが鞄ごと盗難 - 金沢大Security NEXT · 2020-08-31