Comments on: Hackers steal ID info from Virginia university

Thousands of students, faculty and staff at George Mason University have personal information downloaded by online intruders in a major security breach.

Start executing and it'll stop.

Start executing the scums who likes to make life miserable for others and you'll see how fast these identity theft ********* STOP.

Alright. Go Barbarianism!

Honestly, you would rather see violence wasted on people like this? Why not murderers, rapists and child molesters instead? Don't you think that would be a much better alternative?

Why not have these universities set up FIREWALLS?
Come on now. If your system can be breached by someone, then you're obviously not switching things up often enough to even deserve having a system installed.

Cybercrime only happens because we've become too lazy and too trusting of MicroSoft servers and not of something called PAPER AND A PEN.

[kieranmullen]

Not Windows

Most schools and universities dont use Windows on their back end. Many are running Banner which is running Unix based system

Kieran Mullen

[Theosophe74]

Yes, it is Windows

FYI,

At least according to SecurityFocus News, the machines that were compromised are running Windows:

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/10259

It WAS Microsoft

Fron the Washingtom Post today:
"University spokesman Daniel Walsch said yesterday that the intrusion was discovered Jan. 3 by the department that manages campus computer systems. The database also included names, school identification numbers and photographs....
Walsch said the data were housed on computers running Microsoft Windows systems."