The University of Georgia (UGA) is notifying 8,500 current and former employees that their personal information may have been exposed, SCMagazine reports. According to UGA Vice President for Information Technology Timothy Chester, “This appears to be a planned intrusion by someone who knew enough about our operations to know which accounts to attack and where the sensitive information was located within the system.” The intruder reset the passwords of two IT department personnel to gain access to the data. “It is clearly a criminal act of computer trespass, and we are working with UGA Police to investigate,” Chester told employees in an e-mail.
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