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University of Alaska Fairbanks - 38,941 compromised?
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:30:54 -0400 (EDT)
(about a week old, but previously unposted here - lyger) http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~3295338,00.html Article Published: Friday, April 21, 2006 Officials urge people to be on alert for fraud While it's unclear whether a hacker stole the personal information of 38,941 current and former University of Alaska Fairbanks students, faculty and staff, authorities believe the announcement that it might have happened will certainly lead to fraud attempts. "In an event like this, when you take this to the media to assist getting the information out, it turns around and bites us a little," said Sean McGee, UAF's acting police chief. Officials have provided a Web site at www.uaf.edu/security with several pages of information available to those who might have had their names, Social Security numbers and partial e-mail addresses stolen by a hacker who installed an unauthorized program on a university computer server. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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