14 DAY TRIAL // Unauthorized access to the systems of the University of California, Berkeley, has been recorded in the Real Estate Division in the middle of September, resulting in sensitive information being exposed to the intruder(s).
The data breach was perpetrated on servers of the University used for Real Estate programs, as well as a number of workstations from the Capital Projects and Physical Plant-Campus Services. Although the purpose of the servers was not to store confidential information, some of them contained personally identifiable data of various individuals.
Among the details exposed to the intruder(s) are names, social security numbers, credit card numbers, and driver’s licenses.
In a letter to the affected individuals, Grace Crvarich, Chief Operating Officer at UC Berkeley, says that the investigation initiated as soon as the incident was acknowledged found no evidence that the data was actually stolen and there was no information of it having been misused.
As soon as the breach was discovered on September 26, the measures taken by the officials were to shut down the systems in order to prevent further access to them.
Crvarich informs that all people impacted by the incident benefit from one year of free credit monitoring and identity protection services.
There are no details about the number of individuals affected or how the breach was possible.