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. - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomo@private with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
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