Kirsten Clark reports:
Last semester the President’s Challenge website tracked IU [Indiana University] employees’ nutrition and exercise progress throughout their participation in the Healthy IU fitness competition.
On Jan. 19, those same IU employees received an email from President’s Challenge officials delivering some alarming news.
“We are writing to inform you about a security issue involving the President’s Challenge website,” the email began. “Hackers recently accessed our database.”
The security breach gave hackers personal information such as names, email addresses, birth dates and nutritional data of about 650,000 President’s Challenge participants nationwide, including IU employees who participated in the inter-campus challenge.
“As it turns out, though, no financial information was available to the hacker,” Director of University Communications Ryan Piurek said. “And it’s been determined that only a small percentage of participants in the President’s Challenge programs could have social security numbers at risk.”
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