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UNC Charlotte: 350, 000 SSNs exposed in decade-long breach (fwd)
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 02:07:54 -0500 (CDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227078/UNC_Charlotte_350_000_SSNs_exposed_in_decade_long_breach By Jeremy Kirk IDG News Service May 10, 2012 Two issues exposed financial data and Social Security numbers for 350,000 people, although it is thought the information has not been abused, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte said. The university said in a statement earlier this week that it has fixed both problems, one of which lasted three months and the other more than a decade. It blamed a system misconfiguration and incorrect access settings for the exposures, which also involved names and addresses of people who had done transactions with the university. "The university has no reason to believe that any information from either of these incidents was inappropriately accessed or that information was used for identity theft or other crime," it said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Supporters: Risk Based Security (http://www.riskbasedsecurity.com/) Risk Based Security equips organizations with security intelligence, risk management services and on-demand security solutions to establish customized risk-based programs to address information security and compliance challenges. Tenable Network Security (http://www.tenable.com/) Tenable Network Security provides a suite of solutions which unify real-time vulnerability, event and compliance monitoring into a single, role-based, interface for administrators, auditors and risk managers to evaluate, communicate and report needed information for effective decision making and systems management.
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