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University of South Carolina data breach effects 6,000 students
Posted on Aug 26, 2006 by Tom Fragala
USC reports that they just discovered a hacker data breach—that happened in September 2005. One year later?! This off the AP Wire via TheState.com:
The University of South Carolina is warning 6,000 current and former students that some of their personal information may have been accessed by an intruder into the school's computer system.
A security audit this summer determined a university computer server was accessed from outside the system in September 2005, school spokesman Russ McKinney said.
The intruder could have acquired a database used by the university post office that had the names, Social Security numbers and birthdays of about 6,000 students, McKinney said.
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