[pchelpers] News:Massive security breach at UCLA

Details on 800,000 may have been exposed
By John Leyden 
Published Wednesday 13th December 2006 16:48 GMT

UCLA has warned 800,000 current and former students that their personal
details might have been exposed to a hacker who broke into the
university's computer systems. Staff members are also affected by what's
being described as one of the biggest information disclosure breaches on
record.

The names and personal details (including addresses and Social Security
numbers) of students and workers at the California institution were left
open by a series of attacks against a restricted database between
October 2005 and late November 2006, when the intrusion was eventually
detected after UCLA techies noticed an "exceptionally high volume of
suspicious database queries". The FBI have been called in to investigate
the case. Meanwhile UCLA said it was in the process of deploying
enhanced IT security defences.

More here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/13/ucla_hacker_breach/
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