Another recent large scale breach has been identified as University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill notified around 163,000 women that there is a potential compromise that may result in the leak of personal information as well as their social security numbers.  This potential leak is due to a hacker breaching a system containing this data.

Although the breached server at UNC School of Medicine contained information on 236,000 women, only 163,000 contained social security information.   Matt Mauro, chairman of the university’s Department of Radiology said the breach was originally discovered in July but the intrusion may have taken place as long as two years ago.  Mauro said “We think we found some viruses that date back to 2007″.

The server was taken offline since July when the breach was detected and the sites sending information to UNC have temporarily stopped.  Forensic teams required time to piece together the extent of the damage and potential leaked information and is the main reason given for the delayed annoucement.  They do not believe the information was downloaded or modified in anyway at this point.

Tags: breach, hacker, hacks, Malware, social security, ssn, virus, viruses

Author: Christopher