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UNC data breach exposes 163,000 social security numbers

Published September 28, 2009

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill today began notifying about 163,000 women about the potential compromise of their Social Security numbers and other personal information after a hacker breached a system containing the data.

Though the breach was discovered in July, there are indications that the actual intrusion may have taken place as long as two years ago. The reason that notifications have only just started going out is because UNC technology officials and an external forensic team have required time to piece together the extent of the compromise and to figure out exactly who may have been affected by it.

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