From Washington Post,
Hackers have been breaking into a University of Virginia database that included Social Security numbers and other personal information about faculty members over the past two years.
School officials announced the security breaches yesterday, about a week after they discovered that, on 54 days between April 2005 and April 2007, someone broke into the records for more than 5,700 faculty members. Officials warned professors to carefully watch their financial accounts and have offered a year of free credit monitoring to everyone affected.
“I’m concerned about it,” said professor Brandt R. Allen, whose data were exposed. He said he had already been a little worried about online security: “We probably have a lot more breaking and entering than people realize.”
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Tags: Data Breach, U-Va, Privacy
