{"id":7215,"date":"2016-02-28T07:42:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T15:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7215"},"modified":"2019-04-20T16:24:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T16:24:32","slug":"3rd-breach-at-uc-berkeley-in-5-years-80k-in-berkeley-financial-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/?p=7215","title":{"rendered":"3rd Breach at UC Berkeley in 5 years, 80k in Berkeley Financial System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p>Despite having recently touted (and being criticized) for being discovered as having a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2016\/02\/02\/web-cyber-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">network monitoring system<\/a> from Fidelis CyberSecurity, and as the third breach in the past 5 years, now 80,000 current and former faculty, staff, students and vendors have been alerted starting Friday February 26, 2016 about a December 28, 2015 data breach of social security numbers and financial records including bank account numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>The intrusion occurred on the Berkeley Financial System, or BFS, a software used by UC Berkeley for financial management.&nbsp; The breach itself affects over 50% of the current students and employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t see any evidence that this is the kind of attacker that actually did access the data or did anything to take that data from the system,&rdquo; said campus Chief Information Security Officer Paul Rivers in a phone press conference Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>UC Berkeley doubled its cybersecurity budget in 2013 from $1.5M to $3M after its email system, CalNet, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailycal.org\/2013\/10\/16\/uc-berkeley-information-security-office-works-stay-ahead-hackers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taken over by hackers<\/a> and used to house a phishing attack banking scam.<\/p>\n\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7894,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions\/7894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infosecurity.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}