Hoax e-mail on 'postponed' election sent to 35,000 at GMU

04.11.2008

GMU is certified as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the . In January 2005, it was the victim of a in which the names, photos and Social Security numbers of more than 32,000 students and staff were compromised in an intrusion into the school's main ID server. The intruders also installed tools on the ID server that allowed other campus servers to be probed.