UCLA security breach exposes 800,000 students

Officials at the University of California Los Angeles alerted about 800,000 current and former students, faculty and staff on Tuesday that their names and certain personal information were exposed after a hacker broke into a campus computer system. The attacks on the database began in October 2005 and ended Nov. 21 of this year, when computer security technicians noticed suspicious database queries, according to a news release posted on a school Web site set up to answer questions about the theft.

It’s now commonplace to have at least one security breach a week now, but 800,000 IDs is not a small problem. It didn’t say how the “hack” occurred or whether it even was an insider, but if you ever attended UCLA you may want to change some of your sensitive information.