PII of 1 million compromised in Washington State University safe heist

A safe containing a hard drive containing a backup hard drive was stolen on April 21, 2017. The hard drive contained the backup files from WSU’s Social & Economic Science Research Center (SESRC) On June 9, they began informing those affected and sending breach notification notices to various state’s Attorney General Offices. WSU noted, “the information on the hard drive had not been access or misused in any way” One year of identity theft protection was offered to all affected.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3202071/pii-of-1-million-compromised-in-washington-state-university-safe-heist.html