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Over 43,000 Yale Faculty, Staff And Students Get Hacked

Posted on Thursday, September 1st, 2011 by

According to Business Insider, Yale University has become a victim of Google hacking — also known as Google dorking — when cybercriminals use Google search functions to access data on the Internet. The article explains that students and faculty at the Ivy League institution had their personal data — including names and Social Security numbers — available online for nearly ten months. This sensitive information was stored on an FTP server accessible through a simple web search.

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Elaine Rigoli

Elaine Rigoli is a veteran business writer with years of experience managing content and community for various B2B and consumer websites. Elaine has written thousands of articles and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal and eWeek, among other publications.

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