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[privacy] Sacred Heart University Data Hacked
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 17:46:35 GMT
Via internetnews.com. [snip] Sacred Heart University became the latest school to fall victim to a computer hack, which exposed the personal information of as many as 135,000 students and alumni. The information included names, addresses, Social Security numbers and 103 credit-card numbers of people affiliated with the school, said Sacred Heart spokeswoman Funda Alp. Information technology staff for the Fairfield, Conn., school discovered a rootkit had been installed on the server that caused it to crash one of the computer services. The staff found the virus during a routine maintenance check May 8. [snip] Article: http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3609441 More here: http://www.sacredheart.edu/pages/13456_computer_security_alert.cfm - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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