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Samford Hall on the campus of Auburn University. (File photo)

Auburn University has confirmed that nearly 14,000 students and staff were victims of a cyber attack.

The hacker could have accessed the College of Business server between Oct. 21 and Nov. 20, according to a statement from Auburn University. The FBI has been notified of the incident, and investigations are being conducted.

An outside forensics team has been hired to examine the scope of the compromise, according to idradar.com.

Those being notified are being offered free credit protection monitoring with Experian ProtectMyID.

Personal information relating to 13,698 individuals, with ties to the university, was identified on the compromised server.

Auburn has no evidence that the files were actually accessed.

College of Business Dean Bill Hardgrave released a statement, via idradar.com: