Chicago Tribune September 30, 2008 Search ____________________ Go Login or register Cars * Autos A-Z * Used Car Deals * New Car Deals * Sell Your Car | Jobs * My CareerBuilder * Post Resumé | Real Estate * Advice * Communities * Latest Sales * Mortgages * New Homes | Apartments | MORE * Place an Ad * Celebrations * Dating * Events * Items for Sale * Obituaries * Pets * Public Records * Services | Text size: increase text size decrease text size Hacker compromises data on 11,000 at U. of Indy Associated Press 10:33 PM CDT, September 30, 2008 INDIANAPOLIS - A hacker attacked the University of Indianapolis' computer system and gained access to personal information and Social Security numbers for 11,000 students, faculty and staff, the school said. The 4,300-student university's information technology staff and outside computer security experts are investigating the breach, which was discovered Sept. 18 when another institution warned the school. The FBI also was notified. It was not clear whether any data was stolen in the Sept. 8 attack. "We don't know that anything was done with this information, just that there was a compromise," university spokesman Scott Hall told The Indianapolis Star on Tuesday. The compromised records were at least two years old, the school said. University President Beverley J. Pitts -- one of the those whose data was accessed -- said in a campuswide e-mail that the victims would be notified by mail and e-mail in the next few days. The school also will offer victims one year of free credit monitoring. IFRAME: /common/includes/google-adsense-content.html?client=ca-tribune_news3_html&ch annel_content=chicagotribune.com&channel_section=chicagotribune_section&type =wide&page_url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-college-computer b,0,1502032,print.story "Our investigation leaves no doubt that this was a professional job by hackers from outside, and it was well beyond our control," Pitts said in the e-mail. "However, that doesn't change the fact that many names and Social Security numbers, including my own, could have been compromised." The records date from a period when the University of Indianapolis tracked people using Social Security numbers, a practice that has since been stopped. Investigators believe the attack may have originated outside the United States because a foreign language was found embedded in programming code. Hall did not identify the language. Avivah Litan, a Gartner Group research analyst who specializes in identity theft and privacy research, said colleges are increasingly targeted by hackers who go after the personal and financial data in their computer systems. In recent years, similar attacks have occurred at the universities of Southern California, Texas, Missouri, Michigan, Ohio State, Nebraska and Stanford. ------ Information from: The Indianapolis Star, http://www.indystar.com Email E-mail Share * Digg * Del.icio.us * Facebook * Fark * Google * Newsvine * Reddit * Yahoo Print Print Reprint Reprint Related topic galleries: Wages and Pensions, Theft, Interior Policy, Computer Sciences, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Security, Computing and Information Technology All topics Get Chicago Tribune home delivery and save big. Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 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