MI: Hacker accesses personal information from U-M databases

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070721/NEWS06/70721011/

The University of Michigan has notified 5,500 current and former students 
that a hacker gained access to personal information on two School of 
Education databases.

University technology administrators noticed suspicious activity on a 
server on July 3 and the letters went out July 16.

Kelly Cunningham, a university spokeswoman, said Saturday that the 
databases contained no financial information, such as credit card numbers, 
nor did they contain students. grades. The databases, however, did have 
names, addresses, some Social Security numbers and some birth dates, and 
in some cases, the school districts where former students were teaching.

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