Quick Facts

• Date: 6/29/2010
• Institution: University of Maine
• Type of Incident: Penetration
• Number Affected: 4,585
• Source: Data Loss DB
• Abstract Source: The Maine Campus

Abstract
The University of Maine recently announced that the breach of two servers could place student information at risk. The servers, belonging to the university's Counseling Center, contained the names, Social Security numbers and clinical information for 4,585 students that attending the center between August 2002 and June 2010. According to Robert Dana, University of Maine's Dean of Students, the first breach of the servers may have occurred early in March 2010 and the attackers used this access to compromise a second server containing the student information. Dana called university and college networks "prime targets" for attack and stated that the University of Maine is under "literally thousands of [attack] attempts per day." While the university works with Debix to notify affected individuals and offer one year of credit monitoring, the University of Maine Police are investigating the incident with assistance from US Attorney's Office and the US Secret Service. More information is available at http://umaine.edu/informationcenter/