University of Texas Computer Breach Hits 200,000

Nearly 200,000 records of alumni, faculty, staff, and current and prospective students of the business school at the University of Texas at Austin have been exposed in a data breach, school officials said Sunday. It was the second at the university in three years.

The breach was discovered Friday, and involved 197,000 records, some of which included Social Security numbers and “possibly other biographical data,” UT said in a statement issued Sunday.

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