http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/95-06202006
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The Associated Press
June 20, 2006
ATHENS, Ohio - Ohio University said Tuesday it has suspended
two
information technology supervisors over recent breaches by
hackers who
may have stolen 173,000 Social Security numbers from school
computers.
The school did not identify the director of communications
network
services - identified on the school's Web site as Thomas
Reid - and
manager of Internet and systems. Both were suspended pending
the
school's investigation of the breaches, five of which have
happened
since March 2005.
A message was left late Tuesday at a home phone listing for
Reid.
Citing results from an independent audit, the school also
said
University President Roderick McDavis will ask trustees for
up to $2
million to improve computer security. McDavis said he deeply
regretted
the inconvenience and stress the breaches caused university
employees.
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"We hold ourselves fully accountable," McDavis
wrote Monday in an
e-mail to faculty and staff.
The school said in April it had discovered a computer breach
at its
training center for fledgling businesses. Since then,
electronic
break-ins also were reported at the school's alumni office,
health
center and the department that handles records for
businesses the
university hires.
Students, alumni and employees have been told to run credit
checks and
place fraud watches on their credit card and bank accounts.
About two
dozen people have told the school they were victimized by
identity
theft in the past year.
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On the Net:
Ohio University data theft: http://www.ohio.edu/dat
atheft
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