IT Error Opens Data Door at University
The University of Virginia is notifying about 6,000 current and former faculty members that their names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and other personal information may have been stolen by computer hackers between May 2005 and April of this year.
The Charlottesville-based university announced June 8 that a hacker or hackers had breached a “special- purpose Web application” that mistakenly included a link to a data table containing a variety of information about U.Va. faculty members. Investigators found that the system was broken into 54 times between May 20, 2005, and April 19, 2007, and that the records of 5,735 faculty members were accessed.
IT Error Opens Data Door at University
The system was broken in to 54 times from 2005 to 2007 and had access to personal data and no one noticed?