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UC Berkeley Hack Leaves 160,000 At Identity Theft Risk

On April 21st, 2009 UC Berkley officials found that hackers had broken into their campus databases and stole student information. They apparently had gone undetected for six months as the server breach had began on October 9th, 2008. System administrators immediately activated an emergency security incident team to investigate the scope and impact of the breach after finding messages left behind by the intruders during routine maintenance.Still unsure of the origin, they believe the attack was launched overseas. The attackers accessed a public Web site and subsequently bypassed additional secured databases stored on the same server.

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