[ISN] UGA students notified of personal info compromise

From: William Knowles (wk@private)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 02:33:21 PST

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    http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2004-02-01-uga-id-hack_x.htm
    
    2/1/2004 
    
    ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - The University of Georgia has notified 27,000 
    students via e-mail that a hacker may have accessed their personal 
    information through a school computer server and plans to alert more 
    than 4,000 students via U.S. mail. 
    
    University officials were unable to contact those students 
    electronically because they had invalid e-mail addresses, said UGA 
    spokesman Tom Jackson. 
    
    UGA officials discovered the breach on Jan. 20 when they learned the 
    server was probing other computers, domestic and foreign. The server 
    was taken offline the same day. 
    
    Housed on the server are records for every student who applied for 
    undergraduate admission to UGA since August 2002, totaling about 
    31,000 people. 
    
    No one so far has complained that their information, which includes 
    Social Security and credit card numbers, has been used, Jackson said. 
    
    Jackson said students who applied after Jan. 20 will not be affected. 
    Monday is the deadline to apply for fall 2004 admission. 
    
    The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is working with the Federal Bureau 
    of Investigation and UGA officials to determine the source of the 
    breach. 
    
    
    
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