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U of C Student Information Compromised
fhqwhgads writes "SFTP access to the University of Chicago's web server has been temporarily blocked as Networking Services and Information Technology (NSIT) responds to 'the discovery by a campus web developer that files containing social security numbers were located on a portion of a public server that could be accessed by web developers not associated with the site.' The Chicago Maroon is reporting that this was done without escalation of privileges, and that some files were accessible from the internet."
Now their webserver seems awfully slow and unresponsive...
/. to see how the rest of the world is going.... aw shit!
Sysadmins are reporting a MASSIVE distributed denial of service attack... then they head over to
#include sig.h
Sad thing is, after four years of Collage, the student found that randomly assembling bits of paper and pictures and such to create works of art doesn't really pay that much.
But seriously, my college just last year switched from plastering SSNs on IDs and such, IDs used for meals, building entry, even registration at student government meetings, to a university-only number. This doesn't surprise me one bit, and really it could have happened at a lot of colleges a long time ago.
At least they don't use your SSN as your ID number and print it on everyone's ID card like my school does =|