January 5, 2007

UCLA Warns 800,000 That a Hacker May Have Obtained Personal Information

By BROCK READ

Officials at the University of California at Los Angeles have warned some 800,000 people — including students, alumni, and faculty and staff members — that their personal information was exposed when a computer hacker managed to break into a mammoth database used by campus employees.

The hacker first breached the database in October 2005, exploiting a software flaw that UCLA's computer-security technicians had not detected. Campus officials did not notice the

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