March 29, 2005 | This Time its Personal

The University of Berkeley has exposed even more students personal data -- this time by storing the Social Security Numbers and other personal information, including birth dates and addresses of nearly 100,000 alumni, grad students and applicants on a laptop that was stolen on March 11.

The data was unencrypted.

6 months ago, a hacker broke into a research study database, getting access to 600,000 personal records.

Police and UC Berkeley officials hope the thief is interested in the laptop, not the data in it.

I hope so too, since my girlfriend is currently a Berkeley grad student, and according to the criteria in Michael Liedtke's AP story, her data just got stolen.

Word on the campus is that UC Berkeley isn't offering anyone any help with battening down their credit hatches, and are simply advising students to check their credit reports.

Go Bears.

Posted by Ryan Singel at March 29, 2005 10:11 AM

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