Identity Theft at CAL?

Transfer Students UC Transfers
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<p>I just checked my calmail today and got this message,</p>

<p>Colleagues,
We want to let you know that today the campus is sending notification letters and
emails to members of our community to inform them of a computer breach that resulted
in the theft of personal information from databases in our University Health
Services, UHS, area.</p>

<p>The victims of this crime are current and former students, as well as their parents
and spouses if linked to insurance coverage, who had UHS health care coverage or
received services. We are also sending notification letters to Mills College
students who received, or were eligible to receive, healthcare on the UC Berkeley
campus.</p>

<p>We sincerely regret and apologize for any difficulty this theft may create for
individuals who may have had their personal information exposed. We have alerted
campus police detectives and the FBI, and are doing all that we can to investigate
this crime. All of the exposed databases were immediately removed from service to
make sure that they would be completely protected from any future attacks.</p>

<p>Those individuals directly affected by the theft will receive letters with detailed
information on steps that they can take to protect their credit and identity. We
have launched a dedicated web site, <a href="http://datatheft.berkeley.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://datatheft.berkeley.edu&lt;/a> that contains
detailed information for affected individuals, the media and the general public. In
addition a Data Theft Hotline, 888-729-3301 will be operating 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week to answer questions from affected individuals.</p>

<p>UC Berkeley computer administrators determined on April 21 that electronic databases
in UHS had been breached and data stolen by overseas criminals. The databases
stored personally identifiable information used for billing such as Social Security
numbers, and non-treatment medical information such as immunization history, UHS
medical record numbers, dates of visits or names of providers seen, or for
participants in the Education Abroad Program, certain information from the
self-reported health history.</p>

<p>Please be assured that UHS electronic medical records, which include details of
patients diagnoses~, treatments and therapies, are stored in a separate system and
were not affected in this incident.</p>

<p>To ensure that we fully understand the nature of the security breach and to
determine the steps that we can take to minimize the risk of a reoccurrence, the
university has hired an outside auditor, Price Waterhouse Coopers, to support our
ongoing investigation of the incident. The campus is committed to implementing
recommendations that address the root causes of this security breach.</p>

<p>Steve Lustig
Associate Vice Chancellor
Health and Human Services</p>

<p>Shelton Waggener
Associate Vice Chancellor & CIO
Information Services & Technology</p>

<p>Does this include us transfers?</p>

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<p>Nope as we are not current or former students yet.</p>

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<p>No, only current students. New Transfers have not been affected. And in case any Cal Students are reading this, you should receive a second email notifying you if your info was stolen and how to act. Mine was :frowning: I have already put a freeze on my credit, filled a police report, and placed a fraud alert on my final. My info was stolen and used.</p>

<p>They have notified about 160,000 students, alumni and faculty. This was going on since October and affects every cal student and alumni since 1999</p>

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<p>I guess my info was stolen too… :(</p>

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<p>have you guys noticed any unusual activity with your credit cards?</p>

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<p>I haven’t noticed anything unusual on my current credit cards, but I haven’t checked my credit report yet because I got my last “free” report last June. I’m assuming they would use the information to open new credit (cards, loans, etc.) rather than try to use existing credit.</p>

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<p>Hey hockee was it all students or just the ones with SHIP? I didn’t do anything because I assumed I would be safe because I don’t have SHIP. Do you?</p>

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<p>Do you mean you had SHIP shipped waived? I did too, but in the email, it says this:</p>

<p>“It is also possible that
your parents or guardian or spouse`s information was taken if you
waived enrollment in the Student Health Insurance Plan, and they were
the policy holder of your health coverage.”</p>

<p>So it looks like that causes even more problems :(</p>

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<p>this only affects you if you got two emails. if you got another email in addition to the one posted then your information has been compromised.</p>

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<p>I only got one email, but it wasn’t the one OP pasted.</p>

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<p>It only affects you if you got 2 emails. The one OP posted is a generic one, everyone got that one. There is a second one that begins “Dear Berkeley Associate” that is the one that tells you your info was stolen.</p>

<p>It affects EVERYONE (ship, no ship, never been to Tang). If you do not have SHIP it can affect anyone associated with your insurance (parents, children, spouse). If you do have SHIP it only affects you.</p>

<p>A couple months ago I had random charges on my credit card. A few weeks ago my other bank sent me a letter saying that they received information that my account was compromised. They sent me a new debit card and changed my account number.</p>

<p>Now I need to go back and see if all of this is one MAJOR coincidence or if it all stems form this issue.</p>

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<p>“It only affects you if you got 2 emails. The one OP posted is a generic one, everyone got that one. There is a second one that begins “Dear Berkeley Associate” that is the one that tells you your info was stolen.”</p>

<p>I only got one email, and it was the “Dear Berkeley Associate” one, not the one in the first post. So, it can affect someone even if they only got one email.</p>

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<p>I stand corrected</p>

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<p>I got the email too but not the associate one. Pretty annoyed at this. I’m sure some of the Cal EECS/Starcraft majors could have prevented this easily. </p>

<p>Who wants to bet the hacking was due to the person at Tang setting their password to “password”?</p>

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