[list_indonesia] [ppiindia] OOT: Hacker Breaks Into Database for Tracking International Students
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- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:26:35 +0700
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Chronicle of Higher Education Online
Monday, March 21, 2005
Hacker Breaks Into Database for Tracking International Students at UNLV
By SARA LIPKA
A hacker broke into the computer containing records for the federal Student and
Exchange Visitor
Information System at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and gained access
to personal
information on about 5,000 current and former international students and
scholars, university
officials said on Friday.
A routine security check discovered the break-in while it was in progress, the
officials said. They
declined to say exactly when the incident occurred.
After discovering the break-in, the university immediately took the affected
database offline and
notified the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is looking into the case.
Meanwhile, UNLV
officials have informed the international students and scholars of the incident
so that, with the
university's help, they can take steps to protect themselves from identity
theft, said Hilarie S.
Grey, a university spokeswoman.
Information such as birth dates, countries of origin, passport numbers, and
Social Security numbers
is stored on the database for the federal system, known as Sevis, which, under
the USA Patriot Act,
all universities are required to use to track their foreign students and
scholars.
According to Ms. Grey, the information has been transferred to another server,
and the "system is
back up and running." The break-in "shouldn't disrupt our obligations to report
to Sevis" or
interfere with responsibilities to the foreign students and scholars, she said.
In addition to the FBI investigation, about which UNLV could not comment, the
university has begun
an internal examination of its network-security protocols. Ms. Grey said that
while the break-in was
regrettable, "we were very happy that we were able to catch this in progress."
"Hopefully the activity was minimized by that," she said.
The University of Kansas faced a similar situation two years ago, when a hacker
gained access to its
Sevis data (The Chronicle, January 24, 2003).
While a university's goal is "to provide access to information while having the
maximum protection
against these kinds of situations," said Ms. Grey, "it's a challenge for the
whole industry to stay
ahead of these very sophisticated cybercriminals."
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