College data breach may be worst yet

The state of IT security at Ohio University has gone from bad to worse in record time. In what has to be every tech leader's nightmare, the university is acknowledging that one of its data servers has been compromised for at least a year--meaning hackers and thieves have had access to valuable and confidential student data, including social security numbers, for the entire time. As one industry analyst exclaimed, it's an "unbelievable" incident and extraordinary that no one realized the security breach was happening for so long.

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