Comments on: Illinois university hit with security breach

Data on more than 180,000 people is at risk after hackers get into servers at Western Illinois University.

[Nkully86]

Strike 2....

Large Universities are the new target for computer hackers and quite frankly I am surprised it's taken so long. The amount of information that Universities collect is extraordinary. Just to apply to a University you must give them your Social Security number and other personal information, so who knows if all those applicants are also stored within the schools database. When you mix that with the often out of date securtiy practices it seems odd that only a few schools have reported intrusion.

At the same time, I am just a surprised that after being hacked a number of years ago, W. Illinois does not seem to take the necessary precautions to avoid it from happening again. They need to fix this headache all their alumni probably have and solve this data security problem. There are a number of simple ways to protect your personal information, here are a few choices...
http://www.essentialsecurity.com/Documents/article16.htm

[marileev]

Security 101

Nkully86, you're right with all the great minds housed together at Universities, you think that they'd be more apt to act on such threats and have better security on the school's databases - and don't forget about Vermont, Hawaii and others... Strike 6 by my count now.

[Nkully86]

Strike 2....

Large Universities are the new target for computer hackers and quite frankly I am surprised it's taken so long. The amount of information that Universities collect is extraordinary. Just to apply to a University you must give them your Social Security number and other personal information, so who knows if all those applicants are also stored within the schools database. When you mix that with the often out of date securtiy practices it seems odd that only a few schools have reported intrusion.

At the same time, I am just a surprised that after being hacked a number of years ago, W. Illinois does not seem to take the necessary precautions to avoid it from happening again. They need to fix this headache all their alumni probably have and solve this data security problem. There are a number of simple ways to protect your personal information, here are a few choices...
http://www.essentialsecurity.com/Documents/article16.htm

[marileev]

Security 101

Nkully86, you're right with all the great minds housed together at Universities, you think that they'd be more apt to act on such threats and have better security on the school's databases - and don't forget about Vermont, Hawaii and others... Strike 6 by my count now.

[CancerMan2]

Street Value Of $18 Million

Illegal immigrant document peddlers will be able to sell the stolen SSNs on the street for at least $100 per number. The reason our government does not care about these breaches, indeed secretly supports them, is because they help ensure an uninterrupted supply of below market labor that as our fuhrer states, "Does work Americans can't or won't do".

[CVSoprano]

Utterly amazing...

How one can turn a story about potential identity theft into a personal attack against the President. You are a skilled political hack - I'll give you that much.

[CancerMan2]

Street Value Of $18 Million

Illegal immigrant document peddlers will be able to sell the stolen SSNs on the street for at least $100 per number. The reason our government does not care about these breaches, indeed secretly supports them, is because they help ensure an uninterrupted supply of below market labor that as our fuhrer states, "Does work Americans can't or won't do".

[CVSoprano]

Utterly amazing...

How one can turn a story about potential identity theft into a personal attack against the President. You are a skilled political hack - I'll give you that much.