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Hackers strike UC Berkeley computer systems
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Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 01:15:28 -0500 (CDT)
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6803387 By Heather Ishimaru abc7news.com May 08, 2009 BERKELEY, CA (KGO) -- The University of California, Berkeley is notifying 160,000 people they could be victims of identity theft. International hackers have broken into some UC Berkeley computer servers, taking names and social security numbers. Routine maintenance of UC Berkeley's health services center computers in April revealed a break-in. Hackers had come in through an open, public part of the system and then broke into a database with names and Social Security numbers. "We have 97,000 Social Security numbers on the records, but there are 160,000 names in the system, so we're notifying everyone of the breach," Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology Shelton Waggener said. Waggener says e-mails and letters went out Friday. [...] -- LayerOne 2009, Information Security for the discerning professional. May 23-24 2009 @ The Anaheim Marriott in Anaheim, California Visit http://layerone.info for more information
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