Ouch! A computer hacker recently broke into University of California, Berkeley, and gained
access to the names and social security numbers of about 1.4 million
California residents.

“A computer hacker recently broke in to a computer system at the University
of California, Berkeley, and gained access to the names and social security
numbers of about 1.4 million California residents. University officials
confirmed the break-in and called it the worst computer security breach the
university has ever suffered. The names and other personal data had been
gathered by a UC Berkeley researcher who was investigating the impact of
wages on in-home health care. The information includes home addresses,
telephone numbers and dates of birth of both elderly people who use in-home
care and of health-care providers. The researcher obtained the information
from the state of California. [Continued...]“