OSU Staff Data Accessed by Hackers

Ohio State University said Tuesday that personal data of 14,094 existing and former faculty and staff members had been stolen by what appears to be computer hackers overseas.

Hackers penetrated a firewall protecting a network at the school’s Office of Research sometime between March 31 and April 1. The network contained the Social Security numbers, employee identification numbers and birth dates of 190,000 university employees, OSU spokesman Jim Lynch said.

Anyone concerned about this incident can call the special hotline Ohio State established at: 1-866-515-9332. The school will be offering a year’s worth of credit protection via Equifax. More information about this breach can be found at the OSU’s Identity Alert Home Page.

[MSN Money]

Written by MCruz on April 17th, 2007 with no comments.
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