July 22, 2005

Computer Break-In at U. of Southern California Prompts Warning to 270,000 Applicants

By DAN CARNEVALE

The University of Southern California is getting in touch with 270,000 current and former applicants after a hacker broke into a database through a security hole that university officials believe had existed since 1997.

The hacker gained access to information about only a handful of applicants, the officials said. But because the university doesn't know which applicants' data the hacker viewed, it is notifying, as a precaution, all 270,000 people whose information was in the

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