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U of South Carolina 6,000 students
From: Al Mac <macwheel99 () sigecom net>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:26:54 -0500
USC is working on a computer upgrade to a system that does not store Social Security #s etc. and not a moment too soon. The University of South Carolina is warning 6,000 current and former students that some of their personal information may have been accessed by an intruder into the school's computer system. A security audit this summer determined a university computer server was accessed from outside the system in September 2005. The intruder could have acquired a database used by the university post office that had the names, Social Security numbers and birthdays of about 6,000 students. The university sent letters to the students. It is the second time in four months the university has had to inform students that someone other than authorized university personnel had access to their personal information. In April, about 1,400 students' names, Social Security numbers and birth dates were e-mailed accidentally to as many as 1,000 students in the Hospitality, Retail and Sports Management Program. [...] http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/15369806.htm _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 142 million compromised records in 310 incidents over 6 years.
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