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Student Kate Monroe, 27, said he was a serious warning and the school plans to have the fraud alert free to add your credit report."My mother has worked on identity theft and it is not a joke," said Monroe. "During cleared her identity is almost impossible."
The school said Friday he has not received any reports of identity theft from students who have been notified.
In March 2005 crack appeared in the UC Berkeley office and swiped a computer laptop containing personal information of nearly 100,000 Alumni, students and past applicants. Officials said the laptop was discovered before any personal information has been violated.
Six months before a computer hacker trying to access UC Berkeley study is done for the State Department of Social Services. These files contain personal data on 600,000 individuals.
A total of 97,000 Social Security numbers were stolen said Shelton Waggener, UC Berkeley Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and the first chief information officer.
Social Security Number may be used by identity thieves to enter a person through an ongoing credit history or credit cards and bank accounts, according to the California Office of Privacy. Data can be used to open new bank accounts and loans, or even to get a license in the name of the victim, the protection of privacy, officials warn.
The school has identified a total of 160,000 names in the database and contact with everyone, regardless of their social security, it is also in danger.
In violation occurred on the server Oct 6, 2008 and continue until April 9 when the housing support staff carry out routine to find the school said the message was left by the attackers.
"There are indications that the attackers left taunting messages to the system administrator of the controller, which is broken into," said Waggener. "This is a common hacker approach to identify themselves."
University of California, Berkeley, officials said Friday that hackers infiltrated limited data, a computer, as the risk to health and other personal data on 160,000 students, graduates and others.
University said the data includes Social Security numbers, dates of birth, medical information and medical records dating back to 1999. Personal medical information - such as patient diagnoses, treatments and therapies - were not in danger, officials said.
The database contains personal information for parents, spouses and Mills College student who uses or Berkeley are eligible for health care.
Social Security Number may be used by identity thieves to enter a person through an ongoing credit history or credit cards and bank accounts, according to the California Office of Privacy. Data can be used to open new bank accounts and loans, or even to get a license in the name of the victim, the protection of privacy, officials warn.
The school has identified a total of 160,000 names in the database and contact with everyone, regardless of their social security, it is also in danger.
In violation occurred on the server Oct 6, 2008 and continue until April 9 when the housing support staff carry out routine to find the school said the message was left by the attackers.
"There are indications that the attackers left taunting messages to the system administrator of the controller, which is broken into," said Waggener. "This is a common hacker approach to identify themselves."
University of California, Berkeley, officials said Friday that hackers infiltrated limited data, a computer, as the risk to health and other personal data on 160,000 students, graduates and others.
University said the data includes Social Security numbers, dates of birth, medical information and medical records dating back to 1999. Personal medical information - such as patient diagnoses, treatments and therapies - were not in danger, officials said.
The database contains personal information for parents, spouses and Mills College student who uses or Berkeley are eligible for health care.
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