Hackers Looking to Chat or Spam Expose 2,800 to Identity Theft
Another security breach involving a college has recently been reported. While trying to set up chat rooms or establish a spam sending headquarters from themselves, a group of hackers broke into a library consortium that serves Connecticut College, Trinity College and Wesleyan University.
According to consortium sources quoted by Courant.com, the two breached servers were ocated at the consortium’s headquarters at Wesleyan and were used to store a database belonging to all three colleges. The database included the names, addresses and Social Security or driver’s license numbers of about 2,800 Connecticut College library patrons, 12 Wesleyan University patrons and three from Trinity.
There’s no evidence that personal information was stolen, but affected individuals will be mailed letters with information on how to enroll in an identity protection service. All personal information has been deleted from the database and steps were taken to secure the servers.
