[ale] GaTech security breach SANS announcement

[Christopher Fowler]

Does anyone know what type of system this data was on? 


On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 15:11, Dow Hurst wrote:
> Here is an excerpt from a SANS newletter our security officer distributes:
> 
> 
> BEGIN-------------
> Georgia Tech Server Security Breached
> 
> The Georgia Institute of Technology recently discovered that intruders
> accessed one of its servers a number of times in the last two months;
> among the data stolen were the names, addresses and some credit card
> numbers of about 57,000 patrons of the university's Ferst Center for
> the Arts.  School officials have e-mailed those affected by the breach.
> The server was not protected by a firewall.  The Georgia Bureau of
> Investigations and the FBI are investigating.
> END---------------
> 
> Anyone local here in Atlanta that bought tickets might want to get their account number changed.  This post is a bit old since this happened a couple of weeks ago.
> Dow
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