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[privacy] Personal Data on 17, 500 at Risk in CU-Boulder Security Breach
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 01:58:30 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via Colorado.edu. [snip] University of Colorado at Boulder officials today announced that a server in the campus's Academic Advising Center was the subject of a computer attack. CU-Boulder officials said they had begun the process of notifying 17,500 individuals that their personal information - including names and Social Security numbers - might have been exposed in the attack. CU-Boulder officials are continuing to determine the extent of information exposed. Employees with CU-Boulder's Information Technology Services office discovered the attack on Dec. 8 and, following CU guidelines, began an investigation to determine how the system compromise occurred. [snip] More: http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2006/437.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFg1LAq1pz9mNUZTMRAo+lAJ9yrbGq0qiSD4TQ/mMKGNgjwXGx0QCg0Dld qjYM8QgQgMseVoqyTHltzMw= =FCKp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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