Hacker breach might affect 34,000 at USC

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http://www.thestate.com/2012/08/22/2408388/hacker-breach-might-affect-34000.html

By ANDREW SHAIN
thestate.com
Aug. 22, 2012

The University of South Carolina has started notifying 34,000 people with 
ties to its College of Education that their personal information might 
have been accessed in a computer intrusion discovered nearly three months 
ago.

The data-security breach is the largest of six that USC has reported since 
2006. Almost 81,000 records belonging to USC students and employees have 
been exposed during the past six years.

?That?s a dreadful track record,? said Beth Given, director of the Privacy 
Rights Clearinghouse, a San Diego-based consumer rights group that tracks 
breaches.

The latest USC computer intrusion exposed the names, addresses and Social 
Security numbers of students, staff and researchers at the College of 
Education dating back to 2005, said Bill Hogue, USC?s vice president for 
information technology. No transcripts were accessed.

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