The Chronicle of Higher Education

Computer-Security Breach Causes Scare at U. of Texas at Austin

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

Austin, Tex.

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

Of the 197,000 files...

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