[Ecommerce] Hackers infiltrate Cal Poly - Worries of identity theft triggered

[Jeff Williams]

All,

  Here we go again...

Hackers infiltrate Cal Poly
 Worries of identity theft triggered
 By Kenneth Todd Ruiz
 Staff Writer

 Thursday, August 04, 2005 - POMONA -- Computer hackers added
Cal Poly Pomona to a growing list of schools from
 which personal information has been accessed illegally.

 Notices went out on Thursday to 31,077 people informing them that
their records might have been stolen after Cal Poly
 Pomona discovered two computer servers were compromised in
late June.

 "We got hit by a hacker,' said Debra Brum, interim vice president
of instructional and information technology.

 Personal data, including names and Social Security numbers of
university applicants and of current and former faculty, staff and
 students were accessed in the security breach.

 Recent graduate Robert Pedraza, 26, said he is troubled by the
intrusion.

 "If you break into a system, you went in there deliberately to do
harm,' Pedraza said. "It sounds like there was something they
 were after.'

  Remainder of the article, see:
 http://www.sgvtribune.com/cda/article/print/0,1674,205%257E12220%257E2996765,00.html

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