Kansas University Data Breach Affects Current, Former Students

Government Technology: A December data breach that jeopardized the personal information of thousands of current and former Wichita State University students — some of whom attended the school decades ago — is now the subject of a federal lawsuit.

Michael Bahnmaier of Wichita is seeking class action status in the lawsuit, which accuses the university of negligence in keeping and storing sensitive data, waiting too long to alert potential victims about the hack, and “knowingly and deliberately” enriching itself by not paying for security measures that would have guarded against the breach.

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