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Univ. of Texas data breach exposes 197,000 people
Posted on Apr 28, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Computerworld has the story on a new data breach at the University of Texas.
In another reminder of the vulnerability of university networks, the University of Texas at Austin over the weekend announced that someone had broken into a computer at its McCombs School of Business and gained access to a database containing confidential information on about 197,000 people.
The break-in was discovered on Friday after university officials noticed “unusual activity” on the database server, said Dan Updegrove, vice president of IT at the school. Citing an ongoing investigation, he did not say what the unusual activity was, nor would he elaborate on how the break-in might have occurred. But Updegrove did say that the IP addresses involved in the attack are in the Far East, suggesting that the hacking was performed externally.
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