http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7321902.html By ERICKA MELLON HOUSTON CHRONICLE Dec. 2, 2010 Hundreds of thousands of students and employees in the Houston school district had their Social Security numbers and other personal data exposed to a suspected computer hacker, HISD officials announced Thursday. A criminal investigation, launched in October after district employees noticed a security breach, has found that the hacking was more severe than initially thought, leaving students' grades and employees' bank account information vulnerable. Only one student's personal records were viewed, and nothing appears to have been changed, according to authorities, but the suspected hacker had access to 10 years of private data on students, employees, vendors and job applicants in the nation's seventh-largest school district. "This is something that's quite serious," Houston Independent School District Superintendent Terry Grier said Thursday while announcing a plan to improve computer security at a cost of $10 million to $15 million. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Thu Dec 02 2010 - 22:15:32 PST
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