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Failure to Patch Flaw Exposes Data on 60,000 at Antioch

Jaikumar Vijayan writes on ComputerWorld:

Windows systems may be the most frequently attacked by malicious hackers, but they certainly are not the only targets.

Serving as the latest reminder of that fact is Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio, which recently disclosed that Social Security numbers and other personal data belonging to more than 60,000 students, former students and employees may have been compromised by multiple intrusions into its main ERP server.

The break-ins were discovered Feb. 13 and involved a Sun Solaris server that had not been patched against a previously disclosed FTP vulnerability, even though a fix was available for the flaw at the time of the breach, university CIO William Marshall said today.

posted by Fergie @ 4/04/2008 04:23:00 PM