An unprecedented string of electronic intrusions has prompted Ohio University to place at least one technician on paid administrative leave and begin a sweeping reorganization of the university's computer services department. Bill Sams, Ohio University's chief information officer, said he initiated the reorganization on Friday. The Athens, Ohio-based university is reacting to recent discoveries that data thieves compromised at least three campus computer servers. . In a disclosure that hasn't been widely reported, one of the compromised servers, which held Social Security numbers belonging to 137,000 people, was penetrated by U.S. and overseas-based hackers for at least a year and possibly much longer, Sams said in a phone interview Sunday with CNET News.com. The link for this article located at www.cnet.com is no longer available. . Miami State College suffers data leak compromising 250,000 personal records, initiating urgent security enhancements.. Ohio University Cybersecurity, Data Breach Overview, University Cybersecurity Incident. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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