Data Breach Alert: 60,000 impacted in Ohio data breach

Posted by Joe on April 7th, 2008

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Hackers accessed a server housing the personal information of about 60,000 current and former students and employees of Antioch University in Yellow Springs, OH according to a recent report in Computer World Magazine.

The server was vulnerable to outside parties because of a known security vulnerability that had not been remedied by University technical staff. University officials discovered the break-in and data breach while investigating a virus that had infected the server as a result of the security issue.

The personal data was breached sometime on or before February 13, 2008 and discovered by University technical staff shortly thereafter.

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