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January 14, 2012 07:05 pm

Viruses Stole City College of S.F. Data For Years


An anonymous reader sends this quote from an article at the San Francisco Chronicle:"Personal banking information and other data from perhaps tens of thousands of students, faculty and administrators at City College of San Francisco have been stolen in what is being called 'an infestation' of computer viruses with origins in criminal networks in Russia, China and other countries, The Chronicle has learned. At work for more than a decade, the viruses were detected a few days after Thanksgiving, when the college's data security monitoring service detected an unusual pattern of computer traffic, flagging trouble."

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