Data Security Breach: High Impact Public Event

UCLA deals with painful security event in open, transparent way. The security investigation shows that the security breach was exploited to seek Social Security numbers and started as early as October 2005. The university has established a website specifically to handle this event. ...

... "UCLA is alerting approximately 800,000 people that their names and certain personal information are contained in a restricted database that was illegally and fraudulently accessed by a sophisticated computer hacker. " ...

Via UCLA: UCLA Warns of Unauthorized Access to Restricted Database