[privacy] Hacker, Thieves Obtain Ohio State University ID Data

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Columbus Dispatch (props, Flying Hamster).

[snip]

A hacker broke into an Ohio State University computer two weekends ago and
stole the names, Social Security numbers, employee ID numbers and birth
dates of more than 14,000 current and former faculty and staff members, the
university said today.

And in a separate incident, the same information about 3,500 OSU chemistry
students dating back a decade — including Social Security numbers and
grades — were on two laptops stolen from the home of a professor in late
February, the university said.

Ohio State apologized in letters sent Saturday to the staff and students
whose information was stolen, university spokesman Jim Lynch said. Those
affected will be offered a year of free credit protection from a private
company to help them guard against the criminal misuse of their identities,
he said.

In the case of the staff's information, Lynch said, someone using a foreign
Internet address broke through a computer firewall the weekend of March
31-April 1 and accessed more than 14,000 records from an Office of Research
database of about 190,000 current and former university employees.

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More:
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/dispatch/content/local_news/stories/2007/04
/16/osubreach.html

- - ferg

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