I heard about it from my friend Jay just now. Here’s the Associated Press story covering the incident. UC Berkeley has set up a website with information for affected students.
Hackers infiltrated UC Berkeley databases that contained the personal information of 160,000 students and alumni. The information includes Social Security numbers. UC Berkeley has sent out notices to affected individuals. If you have not received a notice, the datatheft website linked above has a hotline that you can call to check whether or not you have been affected.
I called and luckily, I am not affected. Neither is Jay.
Lloyd
How come you’re not affected, if the compromised data was for students back to 1999? Was it just a subset (if a major one) of all students?
Quad
I called the hotline and they told me my info was not in the corrupted databases.