The University of Texas at Dallas won't have to send out nearly as many warning letters as the University of California at Los Angeles did earlier this week (The Chronicle, December 13), but a campus hacking incident is still never pleasant.
Campus officials have announced that hackers may have obtained the names, Social Security numbers, and contact information of some 6,000 students, employees, and applicants from a database kept by the university's school of engineering and computer science. As is the case with most campus security breaches, there's no evidence that any of the personal information has been misused, according to the Associated Press. –Brock Read
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