May 16, 2008
Security Breach at Oklahoma State U.
A parking server at the Oklahoma State University that contained personal information was breached. The breach, which affected 70,000 students, faculty, and staff who purchased a parking pass between July 2002 and March 2008, was discovered in March but just disclosed this week.
Officials apparently waited to inform affected individuals while conducting an investigation to see if Social Security numbers on the server had been accessed. They have not been able to make this determination, according to The Oklahoman. University officials said in a statement that they believe “the intruder’s purpose and only action was to use the OSU server for storage capacity and bandwidth to upload and distribute illegal and inappropriate content,” but their investigators are unsure.—Catherine Rampell
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