Northwestern University Applicants’ Data Breach

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About 17,000 Northwestern University applicants will be receiving notifications through emails and letters that their information may have been accessed by hackers.

Officials realized in May that hackers had access to names, addresses and Social Security numbers stored on nine desktop computers, and they have spent the last two months investigating the incident. The security breach happened after troubleshooting software, which allows technical support staff to access computers remotely, was installed on the computers.

What to do?
Anyone affected by this incident can call 888-209-0097 or e-mail: university_enrollment[at]northwestern.edu.
Update: Additional information about the breach can be found on Northwestern’s site.

Source: Chicago Tribune

Written by MCruz on July 15th, 2006 with no comments.
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