Stanford U. official ousted after keeping quiet about huge exposure of sensitive data
The chief digital officer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business is out of a job after failing to disclose a data breach that included confidential student financial aid records and sensitive information from 10,000 employees. Ranga Jayaraman served as CDO at Stanford for six years before stepping down Wednesday. The decade-old breach was made public after a business school student found 14 terabytes of confidential student data from financial aid applications in February 2017 on an unspecified public server. Stanford business student Adam Allcock reported the breach and saw the records removed within an hour. Public disclosure only took place on Dec. 1 after Jayaraman originally had made the decision to not disclose the breach. In an email to colleagues seen by the San Francisco Chronicle, Jayaraman took “full responsibility for the failure to recognize the scope and nature of the … data exposure and report it in a timely manner to the Dean and the University […]
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