2010 — The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission’s server containing more than 80,000 records, including casino employee information, is compromised.

     2008 — Officials notified about 500 students in the University of Iowa College of Engineering their personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been exposed in a computer breach.

     2008 — The University of Iowa College of Engineering notified 216 former students that some of their personal information, including Social Security numbers, was exposed inadvertently on the Internet for several months.

     2007 — A contractor for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources acknowledged that a computer jump drive containing the names and Social Security numbers of 7,000 people was missing. The contractor believes the drive fell off a desk and into a garbage can.

     2007 — The University of Iowa notified 184 former and current students that their grade information was on a laptop computer stolen from a former teaching assistant who lived in Arizona.

     2007 — The University of Iowa sent letters to about 1,000 students and applicants to the Molecular and Cellular Biology program and 100 faculty members notifying them that Social Security numbers were on a Web database program that was compromised.

     2007 — Up to 600 files of people who have received GEDs were viewed when an Iowa Department of Education online database was hacked. Those filed included names, Social Security numbers, addresses and birth dates of GED graduates from 1965 to 2002.

     2007 — Users of the University of Northern Iowa’s Wellness/Recreation Center were notified of a breach when a computer server was compromised, although officials said they had no reason to believe UNI data stored on the machine was accessed.

     2006 — University of Northern Iowa officials informed almost 6,000 student employees and faculty members that a computer containing their W2s was accessed.

     2005 — A hacker breached a University of Iowa computer that contained up to 30,000 active credit card numbers.

Sources: Iowa Department of Administrative Services, University of Northern Iowa, news archives.

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