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CA: ID theft hits 93 students at UC Irvine
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 03:49:28 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/students-uci-henisey-2012204-irs-tax UC Irvine police say 7,000 current or former graduate students could be at risk of identity thieves who already used stolen data to file fake tax returns for 93 students. Police said Friday they don't know how the information was stolen or who is using it. Only grad students reported being targeted in the UCI case . the latest in a series of campus security breaches nationwide that led to a state law banning use of Social Security numbers as student identification. In 2006, UCLA notified 800,000 people that their data might have been hijacked. Most of the 93 UCI students discovered the thefts when they tried to file electronic tax returns and were told by the IRS that their returns had already been filed, officials said. "For the last two weeks, we have been scouring all of our databases and computer systems, but we have not found any leak here" on campus, UCI Police Chief Paul Henisey said. The thefts appear to be part of a larger national case being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service, Henisey said. IRS agents have been on campus as part of the inquiry, he said. Henisey said the trail leads out of state, but would not comment further to avoid jeopardizing the case. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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