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After Web Defacement, University Warns of Data Breach |
Two weeks after discovering that its Web site had been used by hackers to flog fancy wedding rings, Southern Connecticut State University is notifying 11,000 current and former students that their Social Security numbers may have been compromised.
The personal data was in a file on the university's Web server, which was accessed by criminals who were using the university's site as part of a spam operation, said Patrick Dilger, the university's director of public affairs. "The hackers were using our Web server as a host for their own Web site," he said.
Pages on the university's site contained ads for diamond rings, Viagra and Cialis. After noticing the ads on April 9th, IT staff discovered the file containing the sensitive information. "When we were doing the security review after the hacker incident, we saw this file there and it wasn't properly secured, so it could have been targeted by someone," Dilger said.
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