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Discuss “Hacker attacks computers in Tepper School of Business”

On April 10, officials at the Tepper School of Business discovered that a hacker had broken into a number of computers in the school and possibly compromised the personal information of up to 6000 people.

According to the April 21 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article ?CMU says hacker broke into computers,? information regarding graduate students, alumni, faculty, and staff was the most vulnerable. Although undergraduates were notified of the problem on April 20, they do not as of yet seem to have been directly affected.

Roger Ma, a fifth-year scholar and an undergraduate in the Tepper School, said that the administration ?sent something to the whole Tepper School of Business [saying that] that the computers were compromised,? but that they did not...

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