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The breach went undiscovered for six months, during which time Social Security numbers and health insurance information were stolen.
By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
May 8, 2009 04:50 PM
For six months, hackers had access to a server at the University of California, Berkeley, and stole personal information associated with as many as 160,000 students, alumni, and parents.
In an uncommonly thorough disclosure, a UC Berkeley spokeswoman said that the data breach began on Oct. 9, and lasted through April 9, when university IT personnel found messages left by the hackers and took action to close the breach.
Andrew Conry-Murray spoke with the president of RSA, Art Coviello, at EMC (NYSE: EMC) World 2008 about Data Loss Prevention. The compromised server housed information from the UC Berkeley campus health services center and contained "Social Security numbers, health insurance information, and nontreatment medical information, such as immunization records and names of some of the physicians they may have seen ....
The breach went undiscovered for six months, during which time Social Security numbers and health insurance information were stolen.
By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
May 8, 2009 04:50 PM
For six months, hackers had access to a server at the University of California, Berkeley, and stole personal information associated with as many as 160,000 students, alumni, and parents.
In an uncommonly thorough disclosure, a UC Berkeley spokeswoman said that the data breach began on Oct. 9, and lasted through April 9, when university IT personnel found messages left by the hackers and took action to close the breach.
Andrew Conry-Murray spoke with the president of RSA, Art Coviello, at EMC (NYSE: EMC) World 2008 about Data Loss Prevention. The compromised server housed information from the UC Berkeley campus health services center and contained "Social Security numbers, health insurance information, and nontreatment medical information, such as immunization records and names of some of the physicians they may have seen ....