Emma WestRasmus reports:
“What was the name of your first pet? What’s your favorite color? What’s your mother’s maiden name?”
We all know the drill. Whenever we start a new account we are prompted for answers to challenge questions that will surely be easy to remember. But for more than two dozen students at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth the answers to questions needed to reset their student account passwords might have been just a little too easy to figure out. Earlier this month 28 students’ email accounts at St. Scholastica were hacked when hackers were able to answer the student’s challenge questions on their Self-Service Password Reset service simply through information obtained through the students’ social media pages.
Read more on The Mac Weekly. Once the hackers were able to access the e-mail accounts, they reportedly used information found in the accounts for fraudulent purposes.