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A hacker probing the website of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism may have made off with the social security numbers and other sensitive information of almost 500 applicants to the school, according to the Daily Californian.

The hacker breached the school’s website in July, but there is no indication that he or she has done anything with any information. Her or she accessed information from people who had applied to the school between September 2007 and May 2009.

Hackers are consantly trying to break into the university’s computer system, according to Shelton Waggoner, associate vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer. The network is deluged with 3 million attacks a day, although most do not breach the security systems. In April, the personal data of 16,000 students and alumni was stolen, Waggoner told the Daily Californian.

“It’s certainly something that we deeply regret,” said Neil Henry, the dean of the journalism school. “But we’re going to be very open and transparent about what we have done and what we’re going to do going forward.”

Crime, Education, UC Berkeley

As political pressure mounts for a thorough investigation of the Bush administration’s treatment of detainees in the years after 9/11, one local iteration of the debate over torture, civil rights, and national security refuses to die down. Whether you see it as a tempest in a teapot or the gravest of moral battles, the subject of former Justice Department lawyer and torture apologist John Yoo’s ongoing role as a professor at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law is still a hot one. So hot, in fact, that it may have started to warp the law school’s bureaucratic judgments.

via San Francisco News.

Education, People, UC Berkeley