HackingVulnerability ExploitTargetedIDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNTMediumContained
University of California
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Full breach record for University of California →University of California, Berkeley reported a cyberattack on December 28, 2015, where unauthorized access was gained to financial systems via a security flaw. The incident potentially exposed names, Social Security numbers, and bank account numbers. No evidence of actual data misuse was found, but credit monitoring services were offered to affected individuals.
California clockDiscovered Dec 29, 2015 → Notified Feb 26, 201659d ✓ CA 60-day OK8 weeks discovery → filing
⚠ unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-60237
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- Feb 26, 2016
- Raw hash
- 0309decf8e3f125cb7f76e0f53494eba76d1260910eea9562915c8de8deb6651
Reporting entity
- Name
- University of Californianorm: university of california
- Domain
- admission.universityofcalifornia.edu
Victim entity
- Name
- University of Californianorm: university of california
- Domain
- admission.universityofcalifornia.edu
Incident
- Discovered
- Dec 29, 2015
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Feb 26, 2016
- Affected individuals
- Not disclosed
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICIDENTITY_GOVERNMENTFINANCIAL_ACCOUNT
- Attack vector
- Unauthorized Access
- MITRE ATT&CK
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- Threat actor
- ExternalFinancial
- Regulator citations
- Notified law enforcement, including the FBI
- Initial access
- exploit_public_facing
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 8 weeks(59 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 59d
- Discovery-date grounding
- unattributedNo provenance was recorded for this discovery date and it matches no other date on the record. It may be correct, but it is not independently grounded.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Dec 29, 2015→ Notified: Feb 26, 201659d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.