UGA students notified of personal info compromise

[William Knowles <wk () c4i org>]

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-02-01-uga-id-hack_x.htm

2/1/2004 

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - The University of Georgia has notified 27,000 
students via e-mail that a hacker may have accessed their personal 
information through a school computer server and plans to alert more 
than 4,000 students via U.S. mail. 

University officials were unable to contact those students 
electronically because they had invalid e-mail addresses, said UGA 
spokesman Tom Jackson. 

UGA officials discovered the breach on Jan. 20 when they learned the 
server was probing other computers, domestic and foreign. The server 
was taken offline the same day. 

Housed on the server are records for every student who applied for 
undergraduate admission to UGA since August 2002, totaling about 
31,000 people. 

No one so far has complained that their information, which includes 
Social Security and credit card numbers, has been used, Jackson said. 

Jackson said students who applied after Jan. 20 will not be affected. 
Monday is the deadline to apply for fall 2004 admission. 

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is working with the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation and UGA officials to determine the source of the 
breach. 



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