Wednesday, December 13, 2006

UCLA data break-in

In one of the largest known security breaches at a university, the database at the University of California, Los Angeles has been broken into, <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6143003.html?tag=nl.e589">exposing the private information</A> of about 800,000 people. Administrators discovered November 21 that the database had been compromised, according to a letter dated Tuesday that was posted to the university's Web site (PDF here). The hacker had exploited a previously undetected software flaw and gained access to the database from October 2005 until the discovery, Norman Abrams, acting UCLA chancellor, said in the letter.

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