Ohio University Closes Door on Breach Saga With $90,000 Settlement
Source: chronicle.com Posted By: tesee11 5742 days ago
Ohio University has settled a lawsuit with two former information-technology administrators, paying them a total of $90,000 because the university improperly failed to disclose some records related to an investigation of a data breach three years ago. Thus concludes a saga fraught with litigation, finger-pointing, and the perils of technology.
The university discovered in spring 2006 that holes in its network security system had left hundreds of thousands of files—including medical records and....