Student Charged With Hacking at U-Texas

Student Charged With Hacking at U-Texas (TechNews.com)

“Federal prosecutors today charged a University of Texas student with breaking into a school database and stealing more than 55,000 student, faculty and staff names and Social Security numbers in one of the nation’s biggest cases of data theft involving a university.

Christopher Andrew Phillips, 20, a junior who studies natural sciences, turned himself in at the U.S. Secret Service office in Austin. He was charged with unauthorized access to a protected computer and using false identification with intent to commit a federal offense.”

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