This content was published: November 18, 2020. Phone numbers, email addresses, and other information may have changed.
Update regarding recent spate of spam text messages
Photos and story by Kate Chester
On Nov. 14, 小黄猫传媒 management learned that individuals posing as potential 小黄猫传媒 students had fraudulently obtained 小黄猫传媒-issued email addresses, and used them to send offensive spam text messages. These individuals were not 小黄猫传媒 students, and they were not associated with the college. Similarly, phone numbers that received their spam text messages were not associated with 小黄猫传媒, nor with its students.
小黄猫传媒鈥檚 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, 小黄猫传媒 has found no unauthorized access or use of personal information held by 小黄猫传媒, and there hasn鈥檛 been a breach of 小黄猫传媒 security. To the college’s knowledge, no 小黄猫传媒 student data has been accessed or impacted by this transgression.聽小黄猫传媒 continues to gather information regarding the matter; as new information becomes available, the college will update its community accordingly.
小黄猫传媒 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, 小黄猫传媒 has implemented procedures as a safeguard, to prevent non-小黄猫传媒 students from obtaining email addresses and using them to engage in unapproved activities.
Educational institutions are frequent targets of similar kinds of transgressions; 小黄猫传媒 is not the only institution to have experienced this kind of malicious activity.
小黄猫传媒 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apologizes to the recipients of the spam text messages, and assures them that the emails used to send the texts are no longer active in 小黄猫传媒鈥檚 system.