http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=6803387



By Heather Ishimaru

abc7news.com

May 08, 2009



BERKELEY, CA (KGO) -- The University of California, Berkeley is 

notifying 160,000 people they could be victims of identity theft. 

International hackers have broken into some UC Berkeley computer 

servers, taking names and social security numbers.



Routine maintenance of UC Berkeley's health services center computers in 

April revealed a break-in. Hackers had come in through an open, public 

part of the system and then broke into a database with names and Social 

Security numbers.



"We have 97,000 Social Security numbers on the records, but there are 

160,000 names in the system, so we're notifying everyone of the breach," 

Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology Shelton Waggener 

said.



Waggener says e-mails and letters went out Friday.



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