Johnny Sutton, United States Attorney, Western District of Texas announced March 14 that University of Texas at Austin student Christopher Andrew Phillips was charged with unauthorized access to the university’s computer system and the theft of more than 55,000 records containing personal data. Sutton states: “At this point, there is no indication that the stolen data was further disseminated or used to anyone’s detriment.” My previous postings on this hacking are here and here.
See also this Austin-American Statesman article that provides details on the twenty-year old computer science student who commited the largest data theft on record from a university, and the criminal complaint filed against him.