DA Morales reports on an email hack that didn’t involve any PII but serves as a reminder that you can have a long passphrase or great password, but that’s not enough:
The computer security at the UA seems tough to beat, or so it seemed until last night.
If you have ever had to set up a password with the UA, they require you to change it once a year, and the new password selection process is grueling as you choose not a password but a “passphrase” that has to be about as a long as a midterm report. It can also bare no resemblance to your former passphrase in any way, and I would always end up forgetting my passphrase in about a week and starting the process all over.
Despite this heightened security, last night the employee listserv (mailing list) was compromised and a very disturbing photo was sent to all recipients.
Read more on Tucson Citizen.
In a follow-up news story, Morales reports the university’s response to the hack.