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...information was lost or damaged, however, according to Coordinator of Residential Computing Support Rick Osterberg...
Packet sniffers gather all information, including usernames and passwords, passing over the network while the program is running. This information is then available to the hacker, according to Osterberg...
...isolated only a very small number of FASaccounts that were actually used, and a thoroughinvestigation of those accounts shows that no datawas lost or damaged," Osterberg said in an e-mail...
...Osterberg said that the University is takingsteps to identify the hacker, but stressed thatthe primary goal was to re-establish networksecurity...
According to Osterberg, the University isconsidering several "long-term" plans to bolsternetwork security. The first is "switchednetworking," a system in which every datajack iscompletely isolated from every other datajack.While this prohibits packet sniffing, it is a verycostly procedure which would require extensiverewiring of hundreds of datajacks...