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Forensic exam concludes no breach happened at university |
Processes that seemed to mimic malicious behavior led the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU) to disclose a possible breach, the school said this week.
“Interaction between two incompatible software programs mimicked behavior consistent with malicious software," said Dan Jones, university director of IT security, in a statement.
Officials initially had suspected as many as 9,500 individuals had their names, Social Security numbers, addresses and grades potentially exposed to hackers. But a forensic exam turned up no malicious software, and there was no exposure of student and staff private data.
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