Data breach could affect 30,000 Iowa State students

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http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2014/04/22/data-breach-could-affect-30000-iowa-state-students/8007523/

By Sharyn Jackson
Des Moines Register
April 22, 2014

Servers containing the social security numbers of almost 30,000 Iowa State 
University students were compromised in a security breach, university 
officials announced Tuesday.

Information technology staff discovered a breach of five departmental 
servers that contained social security and university ID numbers for 
students who took classes in computer science, world languages and 
cultures and materials science and engineering.

The students whose information was contained on these servers were 
enrolled between 1995 and 2012. In addition to the 29,780 social security 
numbers exposed in the breach, an additional 18,949 students' university 
IDs were on the servers. There was no financial information in the exposed 
records.

A hacker or hackers accessed the servers in order to generate enough 
computing power to create bitcoins, a digital currency, according to a 
news release from the university.

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