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Hacker invades FSU's system

Feb 20, 2004 12:52PM PST

Hackers broke into several Florida State University (FSU) servers over the weekend of February 13-15, 2004 and gained access to a file containing passwords of about 4,000 FSU staff members. However, according to a statement on February 18, 2004 by Larry Conrad, associate vice president for technology integration at FSU, the passwords were encrypted and no other user data was compromised in the attack. Mr. Conrad called the hack "pretty sophisticated and pervasive," but would not provide details about the attack or FSU's security measures. The incident caused some disruptions for the affected staff members. FSU is reviewing its security policies and measures in response to the attack.

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/7986117.htm

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