USC Security Breach
Russ McKinney, a spokesman for the University of South Carolina, says an online security breach could affect as many as 6,000 current and former USC students. USC is reporting that someone accessed USC’s internal servers causing a security breach. USC officials are unaware if any data was actually taken but they released letters advising 6000 people of the breach and possible security concerns. Investigators say the breach occurred in September of 2005, and they did not discover it until this summer. Possible information that could have been taken includes full names of the students, their birthdates, social security numbers and their school addresses. McKinney said he has not heard of anyone who has been the victim of identity theft due to the incident. “We don’t know,” McKinney said, “They may have.” McKinney said no one has contacted USC concerning that aspect of the incident.
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