UCLA alerts 800,000 to data breach

UCLA alerts 800,000 to data breach
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-12-12

The University of California, Los Angeles warned students, parents, faculty and staff on Tuesday that they may be at risk of identity fraud after an unknown attacker breached a university-administered database containing personal information on approximately 800,000 people.

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another linux server hacked 2006-12-13
Anonymous (2 replies)

UCLA is a big linux shop. humm, interesting....

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Re: another linux server hacked 2006-12-20
Anonymous

Another minute, another kernel update....

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Re: another linux server hacked 2006-12-30
Anonymous

Because we all know Windows is soo secure....

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UCLA alerts 800,000 to data breach 2006-12-13
Anonymous

As has been proven time and time again. You simply cannot trust anyone with your personal information. The fact that it took the system administrator almost a year to notice is a crime in and of itself....

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UCLA alerts 800,000 to data breach 2006-12-14
Anonymous

I would expect the fraction of these 800,000 "stolen" identities that will be subject to identity fraud to be higher than 0.8%. Possibly much higher -- there has got to be a difference between misuse of data on a stolen laptop and misuse of data stolen directly from a database!...

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