Well now, this can't be good...

[Brutuskend]

Link to the full story.

Hackers took advantage of a known vulnerability on an unpatched computer to potentially gain access to some 1.4 million names, Social Security numbers, telephone numbers, addresses and dates of birth at University of California at Berkeley, officials said Tuesday.

The personal data was that of recipients and providers for the state's In Home Supportive Services program, which provides in-home care for elderly people. The data was being used by a researcher, who was studying the impact of wages and benefits paid for by providers and how it impacts the relationship between providers and recipients of in-home care, according to Carlos Ramos, assistant secretary at the California Health and Human Services Agency.

 

[spidey07]

Doesn't surprise me.

There are so many vulnerable hosts.

 

[FoBoT]

it is scary how poor security is all over the place

for each story like this where they figure out what happened, there are likely 10 more cases where the intruder was not discovered


its like cockroaches, if you see one, you know there are hundreds hidden out of site

 

[Syringer]

How do you get 1.4 million people from Berkeley? There's only about 50k people including staff, faculty, and under(grad) students associated with the school.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: Syringer
How do you get 1.4 million people from Berkeley? There's only about 50k people including staff, faculty, and under(grad) students associated with the school.

you gotta read the whole story

the university was doing some co-op project with the state of california , something to do with home health care or something. the school had the state's database from this public health program with the private info of the people that are part of the state program