Another year, another set of Social Security numbers possibly stolen from a university.
The University of Georgia is trying to warn more than 4,000 former, current, and future residents of a university housing complex that a hacker got into a computer server containing their personal information, reports the Associated Press.
Between December 29 and 31, the university said yesterday, a hacker with an overseas Internet address got into a server that contained all sorts of sensitive information culled from housing applications.
Colleges are not supposed to use Social Security numbers as identifiers for students and staff, but many can’t seem to wean themselves from the practice, as The Chronicle has recently reported. This was the second breach at the University of Georgia in 11 months, in fact. In February of 2007, a hacker accessed information, including medical files, of about 3,500 current and former students from another university computer.—Josh Fischman
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