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VA: University Of Virginia Alerts Current And Former Faculty That Sensitive Information Has Been Exposed
From: d2d <d2d () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:37:13 +0000 (UTC)
Courtesy ESI : http://www.adamdodge.com/esi/ http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=2217 The University of Virginia has discovered a security breach in one of its computer applications that resulted in exposure of sensitive information belonging to current and former U.Va. faculty members. The information included names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth. No credit card, bank account or salary information was involved in the incident. As soon as this breach was discovered, the vulnerability was corrected and a thorough investigation was instituted. This criminal investigation is being conducted by University Police in consultation with the FBI and the University?s computing and audit professionals. The investigation has revealed that on 54 separate days between May 20, 2005 and April 19, 2007, hackers tapped into the records of 5,735 faculty members. No suspects have been identified. No data pertaining to students or the University?s non-faculty employees were exposed. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 209 million compromised records in 685 incidents over 7 years.
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