U Missouri Server Hack Exposes 22,396 SSNs

University of Missouri reported that one of its database was hacked and that the intruder is responsible for the default access to the names and Social Security numbers of staff. This is the second data security breach at the University of Missouri, which year.according a notice posted on the website of the University of the IT department, "attack", May 3 and was found the next day. Campus police notified Monday, May 7, "the attack began on May 3 and the intruder () for the sensitive information from the database via the Internet. Unfortunately, the attack is not be able to retrieve the names and Social Security numbers Some of the University of Missouris staff, "according to the notice. "Affected individuals employees of any campus of the university system in 2004, also current or former students, Columbia campus," university needs this matter very seriously. University of Missouri has been and will continue to work hard to ensure that confidential data held. All companies or organizations using the Internet service to their customers face this challenge. "Individuals affected by the incident have been notified or are in the process of being notified, according to the university.22396 affectedthe University reported that, contrary to the affected 22,396 persons were employed on the campus and the University of Missouri and also any current or former students at Columbia Campus. " University of Missouri ... is the awareness of the misuse of personal information, including instructions on how to monitor their credit reports for suspicious activity. The University has been and will continue to work hard to ensure that confidential data held in its computer system. And we are working closely with law enforcement in our investigation of this incident, "read a prepared statement published by the University. Activitythe unusual discovery of the attack, according to the university, staff Noted that the "unusual activities" of an application on May 3, and then the next day and found a series of mistakes "caused by the fault for the application and related databases. These errors, the first assumption that the problems caused by the system used to track computer help desk repair calls using the same database. The attack was confirmed the technology on the same day. They disabled the account was used to by the two overseas visit to the IP address of the database from China and Australia. Vulnerable groups of Web applications is no longer available online ".

investigation that followed, including the reconstruction of the attack, and staff of the outcome, this weekend and has compiled a list of thousands of people Be affected by the breach.the University said that the attacker made "thousands" of enquiries over a few hours, exposed the identity of one of the record, in time.logs show that the attacks came from IP addresses in China and australia.second yearthis the latest violation of the invasion was the second breach of data security, the University of Missouri. The first is early in January this year, more than 1,200 university research of their Social Security numbers and some compromises, 2500, their password Stolen from the University of grant applications system.read more: the University of Missouri computer security page