Hackers steal e-mail details of CityU staff

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    Hackers steal e-mail details of CityU staff

    See HK Standard

    Hackers steal e-mail details of CityU staff

    Wednesday, January 29, 2014

    More than 1,400 e-mail accounts of faculty and staff at the City University of Hong Kong were hacked, with login names and passwords stolen.

    Hackers used a new computer virus called "zero-day malware" for the break-in, which was discovered by the university last Wednesday.

    The police's Commercial Crime Bureau is investigating, and officers said the maximum penalty for access to a computer with criminal or dishonest intent is five years in jail.

    A CityU spokeswoman said: "The malware was successfully removed before it could spread further. There is no evidence that any sensitive information was compromised."

    The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data has been informed, and all affected faculty and staff asked to change their passwords.

    Experts from the CityU supplier have also been asked to review e-mail infrastructure and management.

    Public and social administration senior teaching fellow Cheung Chor- yung believes the university was not a specific target.

    He said: "It's a problem in the internet world, not just CityU." KELLY IP
    Does this mean that the usernames and passwords were stored in a plain text file?

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    HORRIBLE reporting ...

    Hackers used a new computer virus called "zero-day malware" for the break-in, which was discovered by the university last Wednesday.