Sacred Heart University Loses 135,000 Identities
Sacred Heart University of Fairfield, Conn., is the latest school to lose student and faculty data to identity hackers.
"On May 8, Sacred Heart University discovered that the security system on one of our computers containing personal information was breached," the private school of 5,600 wrote in a message posted to its Web site. "We immediately took the computer offline and began an aggressive investigation using university resources and an independent Internet security firm to determine if data was accessed."
School officials could not be reached for immediate comment but TV news channel WTNH reported Thursday that the school has notified about the stolen personal information, including Social Security numbers, of about 135,000 people being exposed, some of whom had no association with the school.
