More than 60,000 current and former University of Central Florida students and employees are anxiously waiting to see if their personal information was hacked.

UCF administrators revealed on Thursday morning their network was hacked but credit card information, medical and financial records and grades were not compromised.

“To ensure our vigilance, I have called for a thorough review of our online systems, policies and training to determine what improvements we can make in light of this recent incident,” UCF President John C. Hitt said in an email.

UCF Sophomore Linae Parkinson is concerned. 

“A little worried because you’re told to be careful with your social security number,” said Parkinson. 

UCF officials say hackers were able to access the social security numbers of about 63,000 current and former students and employees.  UCF says that includes a group of current and former employees that include everyone from residential assistants to graduate students, as well as a group of current and former student-athletes. 

Parkinson says she used to be on UCF’s rowing team. 

“You give it to your university and trust they’ll take care of that information.  And when they don’t – it’s a little worrisome,” said Parkinson.  

UCF’s president notified the entire UCF community of the hack Thursday morning, in an email.  Each of the 63,000 people affected will get a paper letter in the mail by Feb. 8. 

UCF officials say they first found out about the hack back in early January – and reported it to police then.  But they say it took several weeks to identify exactly how many people were affected by it, and exactly how. 

“We were working with a national cyber-forensics firm that helped us confirm for sure yes, this is the date involved, these are the people involved.  Now that we have that confirmation, this week we’re moving forward with the notifications,” said UCF spokesperson Chad Binette.

Linae Parkinson worries if she is one of the people affected, she could be dealing with this for the rest of her life. 

“I think it would be a constant worry that your social security number has been leaked, and you don’t know how to fix that problem, compared to your credit card number being stolen or leaked,” said Parkinson.

UCF has built an entire webpage, www.ucf.edu/datasecurity, and set up a call center where people can get questions about the data security breach answered.  The university is also offering a free credit-monitoring service for those affected. 

UCF said it will notify all those affected by the breach via letter that should be received by the end of next week.  The university is also offering one year of free credit monitoring and identity-protection services for those individuals.

UCF has also set up a call center which is available from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday - Friday at 877-752-5527.

The Federal Trade Commission has more information about identity theft at www.identitytheft.gov/Assistant