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Hacker hits UC-Berkeley computer
Reuters ^
| 20 October 2004
| Staff Reporter
Posted on 10/20/2004 8:25:39 AM PDT by roaddog727
SAN FRANCISCO - A computer hacker accessed names and Social Security numbers of about 1.4 million Californians after breaking into a University of California, Berkeley, computer system in perhaps the worst attack of its kind ever suffered by the school, officials said Tuesday.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News
KEYWORDS: computers; hackers; ucberkley
To: roaddog727
My GOSH! Think of all the dozens of dollars that could be stolen from all those liberal students. This could destroy one of the 250 Starbucks in Berkeley.
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posted on
10/20/2004 8:27:14 AM PDT
by
Shryke
To: Shryke
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posted on
10/20/2004 8:28:30 AM PDT
by
lahargis
To: roaddog727
Heh.. I have the access of millions of names, addresses, and social security numbers where I am working at this very second.
Watch out!!
To: Shryke
GOOD LORD!
A fate worse than death itself.......
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posted on
10/20/2004 8:31:02 AM PDT
by
roaddog727
(The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)
To: roaddog727
It is the evil RNC implementing their secret plan to steal social security and give it to their rich friends!
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posted on
10/20/2004 8:34:36 AM PDT
by
CSM
To: Josh in PA
I have access to a BILLION social security numbers !
000-00-0000
000-00-0001
000-00-0002
000-00-0003
000-00-0004
...
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posted on
10/20/2004 8:34:57 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: roaddog727
Um... more email and personal addresses of students for another country's "citizens" to write "anti-Bush" letters to? (Besides ID theft)
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posted on
10/20/2004 8:54:04 AM PDT
by
Alia
To: Izzy Dunne
ObSimpsons: "Lets see, social security number. Nought nought nought nought nought nought nought nought two. Damn Roosevelt!" ---Mr. Burns
To: Shryke
The SSNs were not from students but from elderly Californians participating in government programs.
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posted on
10/20/2004 9:15:35 AM PDT
by
AZLiberty
(Proud to be an infidel.)
To: AZLiberty
I assumed they were not students (1.4 million is quite a large number), but took some liberty to poke fun at the liberal student body that attends the school.
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posted on
10/20/2004 9:20:30 AM PDT
by
Shryke
To: AZLiberty
Yeah, this is a little nastier than it first appears. The people who had names, addresses, telephone numbers, and social security numbers compromised hadn't actually authorized their release to the school - the state did that by itself.
You can do a lot of stuff with that information.
To: roaddog727
Years ago when my brother moved to California he went for his license. When he looked at the long license number he was assigned he asked the clerk why they didn't just use a person's social Security Number.
Her reply: "It wouldn't work in California, we have too many people."
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posted on
10/20/2004 9:41:37 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(N. Theknow - All-American 1st Pajama Expeditionary Force - Semper FReep)
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