On 2006-07-05, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
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>| Western Illinois University is notifying more than 180,000 people that
>| their personal data is at risk after hackers entered its networks.
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>| At first, the school thought as many as 240,000 people were affected, but
>| the number was revised after weeding out old or duplicate records.
Why not do some housecleaning /before/ the breakin? They could have
used some of the free time they eventually created* to work on making
thngs more secure, and keeping up to date on bug fixes and patches.
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>| An additional 1,000 records from students who attended between 1978 to
>| 1982 were also kept on the compromised system.
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* I doubt that anything else is in too good shape if they don't spend
much time cleaning out old records from several years past.
** See?
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