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Hacker Accesses Personal Information in University of Michigan Databases

Jennifer Dixon writes in The Detroit Free Press:

The University of Michigan has notified 5,500 current and former students that a hacker gained access to personal information on two School of Education databases.

University technology administrators noticed suspicious activity on a server on July 3 and the letters went out July 16.

Kelly Cunningham, a university spokeswoman, said Saturday that the databases contained no financial information, such as credit card numbers, nor did they contain students’ grades. The databases, however, did have names, addresses, some Social Security numbers and some birth dates, and in some cases, the school districts where former students were teaching.

posted by Fergie @ 7/21/2007 11:08:00 AM