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CO: Computer Hacker Gains Access To CU Students' Personal Info
From: d2d <d2d () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 18:08:37 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/13366476/detail.html The names and Social Security numbers of thousands of students at the University of Colorado Boulder have been exposed by a computer hacker, the university announced Tuesday. A school official in Boulder say a computer worm attacked a computer server used by the College of Arts and Sciences. The hacker was then able to have access to the vital information for 45,000 students who were enrolled at CU Boulder from 2002 to the present. IT security investigators said they do not believe the hacker who launched the worm was looking for personal data, but rather was attempting to take control of the machine to allow it to infiltrate other computers both on-and-off campus. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 208 million compromised records in 670 incidents over 7 years.
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