ISR News: Hackers Steal 22K SSI Numbers
Excerpts from ChronicleT.com’s Lisa Roberson
ELYRIA — A sophisticated computer hacker was able to breach the security system of two Lorain County Community College servers in an attack during the Thanksgiving holiday break.
One of the servers contained the records of approximately 22,000 students, community users, and employees and their Social Security numbers. That server hosted the college’s library card system.
“We believe from the computer forensic experts that no one’s personal information was targeted,” Ballinger said, “Still, the college believes firmly in being as aggressively precautionary as possible in not only notifying everyone involved, but by also contracting with Equifax and making credit monitoring available for one year to anyone whose information was stored on that server.”
Filed under: Breach, Class Action Lawsuit, D&O Liability, Financial, Government, ISR News, Insider Threat, Sarbanes-Oxley, Uncategorized, hackers, identity-theft, malware, national security, privacy
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