Mercury News reports that 160,000 UC-Berkeley students' records have been compromised and about 97,000 of them had links between their health records and their social security accounts.
Theft at Berkeley
The server breach began on Oct. 9, 2008, and continued until April 9, 2009, when campus computer administrators performing routine maintenance identified messages left by the hackers.
"Patient privacy and quality care are cornerstones of our services," said Steve Lustig, associate vice chancellor for health and human services. "We are deeply troubled that this breach will concern our current and former clients and want to reassure them that the medical records systems were not touched in this incident."
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