SECUR> Student Charged With Hacking at U-Texas Social Security Numbers Stolen
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- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:42:37 -0600
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Student Charged With Hacking at U-Texas Social Security Numbers Stolen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27370-2003Mar14.html
AUSTIN, March 14 -- Federal prosecutors today charged a University of Texas
student with breaking into a school database and stealing more than 55,000
student, faculty and staff names and Social Security numbers in one of the
nation's biggest cases of data theft involving a university.
Christopher Andrew Phillips, 20, a junior who studies natural sciences,
turned himself in at the U.S. Secret Service office in Austin. He was
charged with unauthorized access to a protected computer and using false
identification with intent to commit a federal offense.
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