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Hacker breach might affect 34,000 at USC
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:46:29 -0500 (CDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.thestate.com/2012/08/22/2408388/hacker-breach-might-affect-34000.html By ANDREW SHAIN thestate.com Aug. 22, 2012 The University of South Carolina has started notifying 34,000 people with ties to its College of Education that their personal information might have been accessed in a computer intrusion discovered nearly three months ago. The data-security breach is the largest of six that USC has reported since 2006. Almost 81,000 records belonging to USC students and employees have been exposed during the past six years. ?That?s a dreadful track record,? said Beth Given, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a San Diego-based consumer rights group that tracks breaches. The latest USC computer intrusion exposed the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of students, staff and researchers at the College of Education dating back to 2005, said Bill Hogue, USC?s vice president for information technology. No transcripts were accessed. [...] _______________________________________________ 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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