Page 4 The Behrend Beacon Data on downloaded by Stacy Downs Knight Ridder Newspapers The FBI is investigating an attack on a Uni versity of Kansas computer system that agents are calling the most serious and potentially dan gerous hacking crime in the Midwest. A week ago, someone downloaded personal in formation on 1,450 international students at KU. Birth dates, Social Security numbers and pass port information were in a database collected as part of national security measures implemented following the 2001 terrorist attacks. Officials say the information could be used to create false identities for people to covertly travel between the United States and other countries. "We're working as quickly as possible to find out who did this," said FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza. "We want to determine how sinister the hacker's motives are." University officials notified the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which alerted U.S. ports of entry by adding information from the crime onto the immigration service computer system. "I thought I'd seen it all," said Mike Heston, director of the immigration service office in Kan sas City. "I've never heard of something at this scale. We're concerned about this. It has fraudu lent implications for national security." KU officials held a news conference Thursday afternoon at the student union to discuss the jljy l94f£jl#it&2ftsi£!knAiMMfe.' ' ■ ;■-• ■■ WMHH|gWfc JSiJiWpWWr tieidesoutdf home. Vet chemical and urine found lots of toxins - iO5 differ ent ones fof her, 101 for him. He's got worrisome amount&of mercury, arsenic and lead. She’s troubled by measur able levels of dozens of different forms of two industrial chemicals linked to cancer, dioxins and PCBs. Two studies, due New Yorltejispitai ronmehtal group, from the. l£S,\Cb) and Prevention# low levels of in* chemicals in 4m. cals' presence is noi it raises questions and what effects they have. 'We really made choicestoavoid chemi cal exposures, yet as my wife said, what ‘ these tests demonstrate Is that we all live to the same chemical neighborhood," Mtrner said Thursday from his Botinas;"; Calif.,' home. ■ ; , ' ~ ’, .. Lemer and Patton were part of a$2QO.OO0 * two-year "Body Burden" vironmentalWorkhij! - Mt. Sinai Hospital: It tested for 210 lo cals in the bodies of eljhtenVironraental spi, health activists, plus |purnali*t Bili Moyers -an unusually smill lahiple. , ; “ In those nine time cancer survivor who’d received chemo therapy ~Wf different industrial’®!i|§- ! ' cultural chemicals were found. The chemi cals - including heavy metols, phosphate and chlorine cdmp®ii®'frotd.®s^!c^' dioxins andPCßs -have tote faimWatir' cers, nervous system malfunctions aiidbirtti defects. ’■ international students in hacking crime Marilu Goodyear, vice provost for information services, said officials discovered Tuesday the records had been downloaded Jan. 17 from a com puter in the Academic Training Center. Officials said it was possible between 10 and 20 records were those of nonintemational students, attribut able to clerical coding errors. Goodyear said there was a glitch in the computer's security system at the time of the in cident, which would have allowed someone with a moderate level of computer experience to break into it. She attributed the problem to a Microsoft server. She said the same hacker might have used that same computer four previous times since Jan. 6 to distribute copyrighted movies and pornogra phy. Lanza said it was too early to determine whether it was the same person. In a statement released by the university, KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway called the crime "a matter of grave concern." "While no one can guarantee the absolute se curity of electronic data, 1 am confident that we have closed the temporary hole' in our system, which occurred while we were enhancing our computer security," he said. The computer, which students were never al lowed to access, held files for what will be an immigration service Student and Exchange Visi tor Information System. Starting this August in response to the 2001 terrorist attacks, U.S. uni versities will be required to transmit information on international students to the immigration ser- Limited Time Offer! Pickup or Delivery CAMPUS SPECIAL jLarge, One Topping 2 Liter ‘Bottk of j (Pepsi, ‘Diet Pepsi or 9At. Dew | Plus applicable tax. j No other ifiscounts apply. k Mercyhurst- Penn State- 897-1818 838-8884 I 1 FREE Gallic Dipping Sauce with every pizza purchased, *A valid phone number is required for delivery. 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