[privacy] Hacker Attack at UCLA Affects 800,000 People

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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

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