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[privacy] Hacker Attack at UCLA Affects 800,000 People
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:36:41 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via CNN (AP). [snip] Officials at the University of California Los Angeles alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that their names and certain personal information were exposed after a hacker broke into a campus computer system. The attacks on the database began in October 2005 and ended November 21 of this year, when computer security technicians noticed suspicious database queries, according to a news release posted on a school Web site set up to answer questions about the theft. Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams said in a letter to those affected, posted on the site, that while the database includes Social Security numbers, home addresses and birth dates, there is no evidence any data have been misused. [snip] More: http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/12/12/ucla.data.theft.ap/index.html UCLA statement: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=7571 - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.1 (Build 1557) wj8DBQFFfuimq1pz9mNUZTMRAt6RAKDvzy9K8f3jkGKJCgHxSLtW+Ytl4QCgmWov kdeq4gWGQxTN8TmvhwL4B3k= =NMjo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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