Hacker Enters UT Data System ; Information on 36,000 People Vulnerable but Apparently Unused
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By RANDY KENNER,  kenner@knews.com  The University of Tennessee mailed out letters Thursday to nearly 36,000 people whose personal information was on a UT computer accessed by a hacker for several months beginning last August.
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A hacker has infiltrated a  University of California, Los Angeles database containing the  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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(InfoWorld) - A stolen laptop at The Boeing Co. has pushed a widely watched tally of U.S. data breach victims past the 100 million mark. On Tuesday, Boeing disclosed that files containing Social Security numbers, names and home addresses of 382,000 current and former employees were compromised in early December when an unencrypted laptop was stolen from an employee's car. That disclosure pushed the total number of data breach victims on the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Web site to 100,152,801, said Beth Givens, director of the consumer advocacy group. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse has been tracking data breaches since February 2005, whenÂ ChoicePoint disclosedÂ that thieves had stolen information on 163,000 victims from the company's database. The ChoicePoint incident was remarkable because although the data broker was obligated to disclose the theft to victims living in California -- the only state with a beach notification law on the books -- it decided to notify everyone, Givens said. "That was the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that a breached entity decided to disclose the event to individuals nationwide," she said. "That was a watershed event," she added, "because other entities that had experienced breaches started disclosing the situation to individuals nationwide" Since the ChoicePoint incident, data security has been in the spotlight, andÂ breaches at the U.S. Department of Veteran's AffairsÂ and, most recently, Boeing and theÂ University of California-Los Angeles, have received national attention. Givens believes that the actual number of names that have been compromised since ChoicePoint is probably much higher than her tally. "I think the number 100 million is largely a fictional number, but what it really indicates is that this is a very significant problem," she said. She couldn't say whether all the publicity has made consumers any more secure. "It's quite obvious from the listing that we've compiled that we're in a very leaky boat when it comes to data security," she said. "I don't think that consumers can feel confident about the protection that their personal information receives."
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A computer hacker accessed names and Social Security numbers of about 1.4 million Californians after breaking into a University of California, Berkeley, computer system in perhaps the worst attack of its kind ever suffered by the school
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Intruder gained access to database holding personal information for up to 600,000 elderly and disabled Californians.
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Authorities are still working to determine who broke into the campus system Jan. 3 and how. University campuses present a particularly inviting security target, experts say, because their systems house large amounts of personal data. -The Washington Post
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Reports of data theft often conjure up images of malicious hackers breaking into remote databases to filch Social Security numbers, credit card records and other personal information.
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More than 1 million computers &#151; possibly yours, too &#151; are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users' personal information, the FBI said Wednesday. The government has no way to track down all the computers, both in the U.S. and elsewhere, that hackers have massed into centrally controlled collections known as botnets.
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About 146,000 people using a U.S.  government jobs Web site had their personal information stolen  by hackers who broke into computers at Monster Worldwide Inc, a  government spokesman said on Thursday.
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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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GNUCitizen is describing an apparent vulnerability that could use VoIP to trick people into revealing personal data.
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LOS ANGELES -- Officials at the University of California Los Angeles alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that their names and certain personal information were exposed after a hacker broke into a campus computer system.
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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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A state government intern in Ohio last week lost a backup device that contained personal data on more than 64,000 state workers and tens of thousands of other people.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md., Feb. 6  /PRNewswire/ -- Are hackers trying to get into your computer right now? And what are they up to? A study by the University of Maryland's A.
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Science & environment: The auction site has been the target of a hacker called Vladuz, whose actions are causing concern.
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Hackers could bypass security warnings and download malicious content.