A hacker broke into Ohio State University's computer system last month and made off with personal data of more than 14,000 people, campus officials said Monday.
The attack, which hit a database kept by the university's Office of Research, compromised the Social Security numbers, employee ID numbers, and birth dates of current and former professors and staff members, according to the Associated Press. That wasn't Ohio State's only bad computer-security news of the day: Campus officials also announced that a pair of laptops, stolen from a professor's home in February, contained the Social Security numbers and grades of about 3,500 students from the past decade.
Ohio State will offer people affected by both security breakdowns a year of free credit protection from a private company, the AP said. –Brock Read
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