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Update regarding recent spate of spam text messages
Story by Kate Chester
On Nov. 14, 抖阴福利导航 management learned that individuals posing as potential 抖阴福利导航 students had fraudulently obtained 抖阴福利导航-issued email addresses, and used them to send offensive spam text messages. These individuals were not 抖阴福利导航 students, and they were not associated with the college. Similarly, phone numbers that received their spam text messages were not associated with 抖阴福利导航, nor with its students.
抖阴福利导航鈥檚 Information Technology team and Student Affairs leadership responded immediately to the incident. They conducted a thorough review of the college鈥檚 internal processes, implemented controls to reduce the impact of this particular incident, terminated all email accounts used to send the offensive texts, and instituted measures to prevent similar types of situations from occurring in the future.
To date, 抖阴福利导航 has found no unauthorized access or use of personal information held by 抖阴福利导航, and there hasn鈥檛 been a breach of 抖阴福利导航 security. To the college’s knowledge, no 抖阴福利导航 student data has been accessed or impacted by this transgression.聽抖阴福利导航 continues to gather information regarding the matter; as new information becomes available, the college will update its community accordingly.
抖阴福利导航 provides email addresses to prospective students during the application process, to allow them to work with student services and faculty, and for related purposes, prior to their enrollment. In response to this incident, 抖阴福利导航 has implemented procedures as a safeguard, to prevent non-抖阴福利导航 students from obtaining email addresses and using them to engage in unapproved activities.
Educational institutions are frequent targets of similar kinds of transgressions; 抖阴福利导航 is not the only institution to have experienced this kind of malicious activity.
抖阴福利导航 sincerely apologizes to the recipients of the spam text messages, and assures them that the emails used to send the texts are no longer active in 抖阴福利导航鈥檚 system.