** Harvard says hacker broke into system**
Thu Mar 13, 8:36 AM ET
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University is notifying thousands of graduate students and applicants that their personal information may have been exposed by a data breach.
Harvard says about 10,000 of last year’s applicants may have had their personal information compromised, with 6,600 having their Social Security numbers exposed.
The school says it will provide the applicants with free identity theft recovery services and help them with credit monitoring and fraud alerts.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080313/ap_on_re_us/harvard_data_breach
Wow…that’s an institution. How do home PCs compare? People! Turn on your firewalls and don’t visit naughty websites! Ignore the luring Google Ads. And um..update your anti-virus.
All jokes aside, how does an ordinary user insure that his/her personal data on a home PC will not be compromised? What can you do to safeguard your personal data from intruders?
PS: I’m not sure if this belongs here in General…