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NC: WCU ID security breached
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:31:15 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080323/NEWS01/80322062 The news arrived by mail, and it was unsettling. Someone had hacked into a computer and had access to the Social Security numbers of 555 graduates of Western Carolina University who had signed up for a newsletter. [.] The compromised information was on a computer server managed by the Department of Business Computer Information Systems and Economics. And it was hacked several times, as long ago as 2006, said Bil Stahl, chief information officer at WCU. "We know the data was taken off the server, but we don.t have any evidence that their data was used," he said. Social Security numbers were included in the stolen information because up until last fall, campuses in the University of North Carolina system could use those digits as student identification numbers. While the practice was stopped then, old data on servers remains vulnerable. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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