The College of the Desert experienced a data security breach on Thursday , June 5 , 2014 . The data security breach involved the release of the following types of your personal information : your name , ssn , dob , gender , home zip code , the titles of positions you held at the college ( including start and end date of each position held ) , your employment anniversary date , employee identification number , health insurance benefit plan selection , health insurance subscriber identification number , amount or cost of health insurance subscriber premium , and active or retired employee status . The breach occurred in the afternoon on Thursday , June 5 , 214 . A College employee , without authorization , sent an electronic email message with an attached spreadsheet containing the above classes of personal information . This email message was sent to a group of approximately 78 college employees . A message recall was attempted and was successful with some but not all recipients . It is possible that the email and its attachment was delivered to approximately 50 people . We can not determine how many people opened the email or viewed the attachment . The email was deleted from their mail boxes within 24 hours . ;