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[Resolved][Severity: Major][Misdelivery]

Ehime University: a file with scholarship information and the personal data of all roughly 9,000 students was mistakenly emailed to 17 students

Through staff error, a file with scholarship data of 236 students and names and addresses of all 9,166 students went to 17 students.

Disclosed

2021-07-10

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. A staff member attached the wrong file when emailing 17 students. Messages went out through the next day, the 6th. [1]

  2. The recipient students confirmed that they had deleted it. [1]

  3. The university announced the case and apologized. [1]

Information sent

The monthly loan amounts and income and expense breakdowns of 236 students receiving scholarships, and the names, addresses, phone numbers, faculties and email addresses of all 9,166 students. [1]

Timeline

  1. Started, Detected 2021-07-05
  2. Disclosed 2021-07-10
  3. 5 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Misdelivery]
Impact
[Data leak]
Entry point
E-mail

Data exposed or at risk

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

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][News]学生の生活費収支内訳含む奨学金情報と全学生約1万名分の個人情報を誤添付しメール送信ScanNetSecurity · 2021-07-14 08:00