Computer-Security Breach Raises Fears at U. of Texas

Hundreds of worried alumni, employees, and students flooded the telephone lines at the University of Texas at Austin last week, after officials announced that someone had illegally retrieved nearly 200,000 electronic records from the McCombs School of Business.

Of the 197,000 files that were breached, 106,000 contained Social Security numbers. The records covered all of the business school's faculty and staff members, a "high percentage" of its current students, and about half of its

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