University of Connecticut's Computer Server Hacked

University of Connecticut officials have discovered a 20-month-old security breach of a computer server that contains Social Security numbers and other personal information for about 72,000 members of the university community, the school said today. Officials don't believe that any information was compromised, although there was an opportunity for someone to access it. The violation was discovered this week.A computer hacker placed a "rootkit" program in the server in October 2003, said university spokesman Michael Kerntke. The program allows hackers to get into a computer and collect information while masking that the system is compromised.
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