March 29, 2005

Personal data exposed due to stolen laptop in Berkeley

Just saw the news this morning. Who is affected? (cited from UC Berkeley News) Data files that may have been accessed include information on the following categories of people. (Note that these categories overlap, so the same individual may occur in multiple files.) * Individuals who submitted applications for graduate school at UC Berkeley for the semesters between Fall 2001 and Spring 2004 * Graduate students who registered at UC Berkeley from Fall 1989 through Fall 2003 * Recipients of doctoral degrees from 1976 through 1999 * Other small groups who will be notified individually more news: "Stolen UC Berkeley laptop exposes personal data of nearly 100,000" - SFGate.com "UC Berkeley police investigating theft of laptop containing grad student ID data" - UC Berkeley News

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