Penn State's College of Liberal Arts today announced that several of its system's were the target of two cyber attacks in May, but officials found no evidence that personal identifiable information or research data were compromised.
However, school officials acknowledged that a number of Liberals Arts-issued usernames and passwords were compromised. Faculty and staff are being asked to choose new passwords for their college accounts.
The school will hold a news conference at 6:15 p.m. to discuss the attacks, first detected by a cyber-security forensic unit on May 4. They were made by unknown individuals, the release said.
The school implemented enhanced security measures following another attack on its School of Engineering, which it announced in May.
"Penn State takes very seriously the security of the sensitive data in its care and we are continuing to investigate the circumstances that ultimately allowed attackers to access the network in the College of Liberal Arts," Penn state provost and executive vice president Nicholas Jones said.
"Over the last several months at Penn State, we have implemented advanced monitoring techniques designed to better detect these intrusions, and this is what happened in this case. As we continue to see in the news, large organizations, including governments, corporations and universities, must do more to protect sensitive data from increasingly aggressive criminals. This is particularly challenging at at a large public research university, where collaboration and cross-pollination of ideas and information is at the very core of our academic mission."
The investigation into the College of Liberal Arts attacks revealed that the earliest signs of intrusion date to March 4, the release said. Its faculty, students and staff may experience disruptions in connectivity, but the college expects to return to full operation by tomorrow.
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