University of Hawaii: Security Breach Investigation on 53,000 Records

More than 53,000 people, who did business with the University of Hawaii at Manoa parking office's data base from 1998-2009, are being notified by mail that they may be affected by a computer security breach. The FBI and Honolulu Police Department are investigating the breach that was discovered on June 15 during a routine audit. University officials say the unauthorized access to a computer server used by the Manoa parking office occurred on May 30.

Affected are 53,000 records, which included 41,000 Social Security numbers and 200 credit card numbers.

To protect personal information from further unauthorized access, social security numbers are no longer used for parking transactions, and are being purged from all current and past parking office databases, the university said.

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