University of Florida officials have notified about 330,000 current and former dental patients that an unauthorized intruder recently accessed a College of Dentistry computer server storing their personal information.
The breach was discovered October third while college information technology staff members were upgrading the server and found software had been installed on it remotely. It was just made public today.
Information stored on the server included names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers and, in some cases, dental procedure information for patients dating back to 1990.
UF officials are in the process of screening up to 60,000 additional computers from around campus to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect the information stored on them.
