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Article #3585Your Confidential Records Available to All!
From: Saqib Ali
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:00
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There is a huge gaping security hole with the MARS telephone system as I write this post. Because of this, all students' sensitive registration records, grades, financial information is freely available to anyone with their social security number.... Just try it. Step 1: Call (301) 403-0500 Step 2: Press 3 (for financial information) Step 3: Press 1 for student account inquiry Step 4: When it asks you for a social security number, put in any students. It will then ask you for a PIN. Put in ANY six digit number.... ANY NUMBER WORKS!!!!! Step 5: Listen as you find out sensitive personal account information!!! This example is a benign one. Anyone with your social security number can drop all your classes for you or register you in whatever you want. Pretty great, huh? --
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10f4d5,acdcb54fa55c43fe,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10f4d5,public X-Google-Thread: 101cd0,acdcb54fa55c43fe,start X-Google-Attributes: gid101cd0,public X-Google-Thread: 101cd7,acdcb54fa55c43fe,start X-Google-Attributes: gid101cd7,public From: saqib@cs.umd.edu (Saqib Ali) Subject: Your Confidential Records Available to All! Date: 1999/02/26 Message-ID: <7b6jp8$sgc$1@cronkite.cs.umd.edu> X-Deja-AN: 448779711 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cs.umd.edu X-Trace: cronkite.cs.umd.edu 920048232 29196 128.8.128.67 (26 Feb 1999 16:57:12 GMT) Organization: U of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 Keywords: Confidentiality,WAM NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Feb 1999 16:57:12 GMT Newsgroups: csd.grad,csd.general,um.general