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Monday, November 17, 2008

University of Florida Records Hacked, Channel Web

November 12, 2008

The victims are no longer just banks and major retail chains. The University of Florida is the latest university to suffer a data breach. In this case, at least 330,000 current and former dental patients were potentially affected after unauthorized hackers gained access to the school's College of Dentistry computer server, which contained their personal information.

University officials detected the breach Oct. 3 while college IT staff were conducting an upgrade to the server and found that unauthorized software had been installed remotely.

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