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University of Missouri Computer Attack Leaves 22,000 Vulnerable

Sara Semelka writes in The Columbia Tribune:

A recent attack on the University of Missouri system computer database allowed an unknown hacker, or several hackers, to retrieve 22,396 names and Social Security numbers of individuals associated with the university.

The people affected by the security breach are employees of any campus in the UM system during the 2004 calendar year who were also current or former students at the Columbia campus.

The hacker accessed the information through a Web page used to make queries about the status of trouble reports to the information technology help desk, based in Columbia.

According to the university, the information from 2004 had been compiled for a report and the resulting data was not removed from the computer system. The information has been removed since the attack was discovered late last week.

posted by Fergie @ 5/08/2007 05:54:00 PM