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Database attack exposes personal data at University of Maryland |
February 20, 2014
Personal records for more than 309,000 students and staff were exposed this week in a “sophisticated” database attack at the University of Maryland, the university said Wednesday.Birth dates, Social Security numbers, names and university ID numbers were compromised for people issued with a school ID and affiliated with the university’s College Park and Shady Grove campuses since 1998, the school said.Financial, academic, health and contact information such as phone numbers were not exposed, according to a statement attributed to Wallace D. Loh, the university’s president.The cause of the breach, which happened Tuesday, is unknown and an investigation is underway by federal and state law enforcement, Loh wrote. The school has 37,000 active students.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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