University of Colorado officials are warning 17,500 students that their personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, may have been stolen when a hacker broke into a campus computer server.
It's the first such incident this year after CU bolstered computer security in February following a wave of four attacks in 2005.
Employees from CU's Information Technology Services office discovered the attack on a server in the campus' Academic Advising Center on Dec. 8. The investigation is ongoing.
"The hacker apparently entered the server through a Web page," Todd Gleeson, dean of CU's College of Arts and Sciences, which houses the Academic Advising Center, said in a statement.
The identities and Social Security numbers exposed in the attack were of students who attended orientation sessions from 2002 to 2004, he said.
"We do not presently have any evidence that the data were actually accessed or used, and we are notifying the students affected," Gleeson said.
(Thanks to my friend, Aaron Spuler, for the catch.)
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