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Bruins Burned By Bad Bytes

2006-12-13, 10:54 AM #1

dalf

Everyone's favorite alcoholic administrator!

Posts: 8,683

Like that alliteration eh?

UCLA was hacked and upwards of 800,000 students, faculty, alum, and staff had stuff like their personal info stolen from them. So if any of you have applied or are going to UCLA, I'd be watching your credit report more closely.

News article: http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,20920842%5e16123%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html

Code to the left of him, code to the right of him, code in front of him compil'd and thundered. Programm'd at with shot and $SHELL. Boldly he typed and well. Into the jaws of C. Into the mouth of PERL. Debug'd the 0x258.

2006-12-13, 12:26 PM #2

Draco_Zandros

Registered User

Posts: 66

Quote:

The highly sophisticated attack exploited a software flaw to crack the computer system in a bid to obtain Social Security numbers

Any idea what software flaw their talking about?

This is also an example of why it's bad independent bodies are allowed to have so much information on people.