Stolen UC Berkeley Laptop Exposes Personal Data of Nearly 100, 000

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7653-2005Mar28.html

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
AP Business Writer
March 28, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A thief has stolen a computer laptop containing
personal information about nearly 100,000 University of California,
Berkeley alumni, graduate students and past applicants, continuing a
recent outbreak of security breakdowns that has illustrated society's
growing vulnerability to identity theft.

University officials announced the March 11 theft on Monday under a
state law requiring that consumers be notified whenever their Social
Security numbers or other sensitive information has been breached.

Notifying all of the 98,369 people affected by the UC Berkeley laptop
theft could prove difficult because some of the students received
their doctorate degrees nearly 30 years ago, university officials
said.

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