Hackers had access for six months to a server at the University of California, Berkely, and stole personal and healthinformation of over 160,000 students, alumni, and parents.
The compromised server housed information from the UC Berkeley campus health service center and contained “Social Security numbers, health insurance information, and nontreatment medical information, such as immunization records and names of some of the physicians they may have seen for diagnoses or treatment,” according to the spokeswoman.
UC Berkeley began notifying students, alumni, and parents on Friday. They were told that their personal information had been accessed without authorization. The hacking took place around April 6 to the 9th, 2009. The university should have notified everyone about this sooner.
The school has set up a site that is updated with the latest information as it becomes available.
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