TrinTalk

The library consortium between Connecticut College, Weselyan University, and Trinity College was apparently hacked into by people looking to either set up chat servers or send spam e-mails. The servers, which are located at the consortium’s hub at Weselyan, contain the names, addresses, social security numbers, and other valuable information of approximately 2,800 ConnColl library patrons, 28 Weselyan library patrons, and three Trinity library patrons. While they say the data wasn’t accessed, they are mailing information to those whose identities could be at risk.

While it isn’t a widespred issue for Trinity, as only 3 names were housed on the server, I still find it somewhat disconcerting that there hasn’t been any attention drawn to this from the administration or the SGA.

The Courant article directs people with questions to see:

Individuals with questions may contact Ruth Seeley, manager of computer support services, at ruth.seeley@conncoll.edu or 860-439-2052.

The Hartford Courant is the publisher that broke the story, and we subsequently picked it up from Weselying.

I actually almost wrote a post about how we, unlike 6 other NESCAC schools, lacked a real web presense almost any and everywhere college kids go right now, especially Facebook.

I’m relieved to see that someone in the TrinComm office seemed to get into the whole Web 2.0 phenom (or maybe they didn’t and this is student-lead) and make the first Trinity College Facebook Page, adding us amongst the ranks of Middlebury, Wesleyan, Hamilton, Bates, Williams, and Amherst.

If you’re in the spirit, you can of course still become a fan of TrinTalk at our Facebook Page and join the Facebook Group as well!