UC Berkeley Students Swept Up in Administrative Office Hack

Unauthorized users broke into a campus Web server maintained by a unit within UC Berkeley’s Division of Equity and Inclusion that stored, among other things, family financial information, Social Security numbers and bank account data.

The school began notifying current students and other affected individuals, mostly family members, by mail on April 30.

When campus officials learned of the breach in March, they immediately removed the server from the network and brought in digital forensics investigators.