Carnegie Mellon reports computer breach (CERT is at CMU-5000 ID Theft)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7590506/

Carnegie Mellon University is warning more than 5,000 students, employees and graduates that their Social Security numbers and other personal information may have been accessed during a breach of the school's computer network.

Carnegie Mellon discovered the breach on April 10. Spokesman Mike Laffin said that as of Wednesday, the school had no clear idea how long the system had been vulnerable. Officials say they have no evidence that anyone had used the personal information.

The affected computers had personal information for people who got graduate degrees from the Tepper School of Business from 1997 to 2004.

Frightening - CMU is where CERT is located.

Established in 1988, the CERT® Coordination Center (CERT/CC) is a center of Internet security expertise, located at the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center operated by Carnegie Mellon University.

http://www.cert.org/

FBI joins hunt for CMU hacker

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05112/492604.stm

With the FBI now in the hunt for whoever breached business school computers at Carnegie Mellon University, officials yesterday said the array of compromised data also included grades and job offer information, including salaries.

In addition to current students, thousands of Tepper School of Business alumni from as far back as the early 1950s may have been affected if they opted to include information about themselves -- like a phone number, street address or personal e-mail address -- in any of the databases compromised by one or more hackers.

"The entire school has been affected. Some of the information is more sensitive than others," Tepper spokesman Mike Laffin said.

Even as new details emerged about the incident's scope, officials reiterated that there was no indication any of the compromised data, including Social Security and credit card numbers, had been misused.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. It has become my semi-knowledgeable opinion...

That there is an organized effort to mine data out of systems, taking place out there. Period.

[RamboLiberal]

2. Tell me about it - I just got letter from LexisNexis informing me

I may be a victim of identity theft from their subsidiary Seisint.

This was from those fraudulent companies they allowed to access their data. Bastards!

[Warren Stupidity]

3. indeed

A plague, a pandemic, and I'd say it was organized. Luckily the MSM is all over it like, well, like the MSM is all over everything that isn't good for fascism.

Whats 5,000 ids here, 10,000 there, 100,000 over in the corner? Not to worry, nothing to see here, move along.

[BattyDem]

4. I've got a bad feeling that this has something to do with ...

the Repugs rejecting the amendment to the Bankruptcy Bill that would have protected people from debt caused by identity theft.

Nelson (FL) Amendment No. 37:
To exempt debtors from means testing if their financial problems were caused by identity theft.

People without significant debt will not be affected by the Bankruptcy Bill, sooo ... create that debt by having their identities stolen and then providing no legal protection against the results of that theft. Also, make class action suits virtually impossible to file so no one can go after the companies who didn't secure their data in the first place. The middle class will disappear in no time.

No middle class = no Democracy :scared:

Excuse me while I go polish my hat. :tinfoilhat:

[annabanana]

9. Democrats of "means" now have their nuts in a vise!

This is the handiest tool I have ever seen to neuter meaningful opposition to the machine. It's nice and clean and can be done very quietly. No one even has to leave their desks.

(this notion deserves it's own thread)

[dbt]

10. I second that thread notion!

The fact that this is going on right out in the open has BFEE written all over it. And we've all noticed their fondness for doing things via computer sans paper trail, now haven't we?

To paraphrase the Great Waylon, don't y'all think this data shit has done got out of hand?

[lovuian]

5. Republicans we have a problem!!! Mastercard & Visa don't work

anymore the numbers can be gotten and sold and used ...

the party is over ...

identification is going to be fingerprints you watch!!!

[shanti]

7. or a microchip

wait and see....

[aquart]

6. Real terrorism doesn't need a bomb.

A computer will do fine.

[Melynn]

8. That's what Richard Clarke has been saying for years

Maybe now someone in power will listen to him.

No wait, who is in power....never mind.

[dbt]

11. Kick.

What is this, the third or fourth instance of compromised databases in the last couple of months?

:freak: