data breach
SFU servers beg to be understood
May 27, 2022Dear SFU student body, We’re not bad servers. Really. But I understand that for a healthy student-server relationship (like the one we don’t have), you need an apology. Or at the very least, an explanation. You cry and blame me for your data breaches, even claiming psychological distress in a lawsuit! Everyone complains about fragile SFU servers and they never stop to think, “Say, maybe these fragile networks just need a conversation!” No one asks how I feel about all this! So let me tell you the truth: all these data breaches — they’re really for your good, you just…
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Five emails we’ll probably receive over the course of the semester
June 5, 2021Subject line: The Reflecting Pond incident Joy Johnson wants you to know that she is so very sorry about the koi pond incident. No, really. It’s not her fault that she draws her powers from the full moon. Not…
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Council Meeting — March 17, 2021
March 30, 2021Student cybersecurity Following the data breaches in February 2021 and March 2020, molecular biology and biochemistry representative Kyle Newcomb brought forward a discussion item regarding student cybersecurity. Newcomb emphasized the Board’s responsibility to pressure SFU to treat student information with…
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Lawsuit filed against SFU for data breach
March 27, 2021Following SFU’s data breach on February 3, 2021, BC law firm Slater Vecchio LLP filed a class action lawsuit against the university on behalf of the 200,000 individuals affected by the incident. The lawsuit argues that SFU students should have…
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Senate Report: March 1, 2021
March 26, 2021Endorsement of the Burnaby Mountain Gondola Last senate meeting, president Joy Johnson announced SFU is “working really hard to advocate for the gondola [ . . . ] to improve transportation up onto Burnaby Mountain.” Johnson remains “confident that this…
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SFU needs to take greater measures to protect our data
March 14, 2021SFU prides itself on keeping its community safe from harm, yet its cybersecurity (or the lack thereof) paints a different image. SFU’s servers were hacked on February 3, exposing the personally identifiable data of over 200,000 past and current students…
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Data breach exposes SFU users’ personally identifiable information
March 8, 2021On February 3, 2021, there was an eight-minute data breach from an SFU server. IT services discovered the attack two days later and blocked external access to the server immediately. Faculty, staff, and students were informed on February 16. They…
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Students informed of SFU community data security breach
March 2, 2020A security breach caused SFU’s Chief Information Officer Mark Roman to send out an email to SFU students on the morning of March 2, 2020. According to the email, all SFU community members who joined SFU before June 20, 2019…
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