IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Hackers gained access to an online database containing personal information of 125,000 people who applied to take credit classes at an Iowa community college during the last eight years, the school said Monday.

Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids announced that “sophisticated hackers” using an international IP address hacked into the student application database on its website on March 13. College officials noticed a spike in activity on the site, and quickly shut it down and contacted the FBI to report the suspected breach, vice president of student services Kristie Fisher said.