University of Maryland Hacked
Hundreds of thousands of records exposed
More than 300,000 personal records for faculty, staff and students who have received identification cards at the University of Maryland were compromised in a computer security breach this week, school officials said.
The breach occurred about 4 a.m. Tuesday, when an outside source gained access to a secure records database that holds information dating to 1998.
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It appears the UofMaryland Cybersecurity Center is failing at their job.