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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