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CA: Criminal Probe Launched Into Computer Hacking of Vet School Admissions Info
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:02:09 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=8225 A criminal investigation into the apparent hacking and misuse of computerized veterinary medical school admissions records has been launched by the University of California, Davis, Police Department, in cooperation with the Sacramento Valley High Tech Crimes Task Force. On June 15, the university determined that its computer-security safeguards had been breached and someone had gained access to the personal information of an estimated 1,120 applicants to the School of Veterinary Medicine for the 2007-2008 school year, including 131 accepted students. The hacker had accessed information including the applicants' names, birth dates and, in most cases, Social Security numbers. The security breach became apparent when applicants who had recently been admitted to the School of Veterinary Medicine attempted to set up campus computer accounts and were notified that accounts had already been established in their names. Further investigation revealed that the records of 375 veterinary medical school applicants for the 2004-2005 school year -- seven of them admitted students -- also might have been illegally accessed. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 209 million compromised records in 712 incidents over 7 years.
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