Authorities investigate hacking attack at University of California
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Authorities are trying to determine how a hacker gained access to a University of California computer that contained personal information for more than 1 million people, many of them recipients of an assistance program for the elderly.
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California university officials have warned nearly 600,000 students and faculty that they might be exposed to identity theft following incidents where computer hard drives loaded with their private information were lost or hacked into.
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS  Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 "root" computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.
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An unknown hacker has infiltrated a  massive University of California, Los Angeles database with  personal information on 800,000 people, the school said on  Tuesday, in one of the worst computer breaches ever at a U.S.  university.
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The University of California, Los Angeles, reports one or more computer hackers have accessed a database containing the personal information of 800,000 people.  The school said the central campus database was accessed between October 2005 and Nov.
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Details on 800,000 may have been exposed 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.â¦
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Personal information on more than 5,700 current and former faculty members at the University of Virginia may have been stolen by hackers who accessed the data multiple times over a period of almost two years.
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By Randy Ludlow, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Sep. 6--An Ohio University consultant has recovered interview notes and other documents behind its investigation of hacker thefts of personal data from campus computers.
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Universities have become attractive targets for hackers who are taking advantage of the openness of the schools' networks, their decentralized security and the personal information they keep on millions of young adults.
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In a potentially huge computer security breach, a hacker broke into a computer at UC Berkeley containing Social Security numbers and other personal data for about 600,000 Californians, the university said Wednesday.
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A former University of Texas student was indicted on charges he hacked into the school's computer system and stole Social Security numbers and other personal information from more than 37,000 students and employees.
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USA TODAY reporter Mary Beth Marklein examines how and why security breaches have occurred on campus, some of the ways colleges are trying to protect data and how students can protect themselves.
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Hackers might have obtained the personal information of 6,000 people who worked for, applied to or attended the University of Texas at Dallas, school officials said Wednesday.
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AT&T said that its online store has been hacked and that the credit card information and personal data of as many as 19,000 customers may have been compromised.
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Hackers broke into a University of Virginia database that included Social Security numbers and other personal information about faculty members.
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A company that collects consumer data warned thousands of Californians that hackers penetrated the company's computer network and may have stolen credit reports, Social Security numbers and other sensitive information.
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By TED BRIDIS Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.