University Of Florida Records Hacked
The victims are no longer just banks and major retail chains. The University of Florida is the latest university to suffer a data breach. In this case, at least 330,000 current and former dental patients were potentially affected after unauthorized hackers gained access to the school's College of Dentistry computer server, which contained their personal information.
University officials detected the breach Oct. 3 while college IT staff were conducting an upgrade to the server and found that unauthorized software had been installed remotely. Altogether, the hacked information included patient names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers and, in some cases, dental procedure information dating back as far as 1990.
Members of the FBI are working with the University police department and the College of Dentistry to investigate the security breach. Meanwhile, UF officials are also in the process of screening up to 60,000 additional computers on campus to install appropriate security solutions and protect student information stored on them.
