800,000 UCLA files hacked

Records containing the names, Social Security numbers and birth dates of students, faculty, employees and some applicants since the early 1990s may have been accessed. The online intrusion went on from October 2005 to this November 21, says the Times story. A letter going out today says the university has no knowledge of any identity theft or other misuse of the data. Can I just say: 800,000 is a lot of people for UCLA to have records on.


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