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Stories about: University of Florida

Major Data Breach at the University of Florida The University of Florida is in the process of notifying over 97,200 current and former students and staff that their personally identifiable information might have been accessed by unauthorized parties. The university's IT staff has recently discovered that an e-learning system that dates back to 1996 had ... 21 February 2009 04:56 GMT Potentially Racist SMS Sent to Thousands of Students A message that read “The monkey got out of the cage” was sent to the mobile phones of students and staff from the University of Florida on the Inauguration Day. A man confessed to misusing the university's system and sending the message, which many thought was a racist slur against President Barack O... 22 January 2009 06:17 GMT Personal Records of Thousands of Dental Patients Compromised The IT personnel from UF's College of Dentistry discovered, during maintenance, that one of their servers had been remotely compromised. The staff found unauthorized software installed on the server that also contained personal information of more than 330,000 former and current patients.The personal records inc... 17 November 2008 10:08 GMT