DisclosureLens
HackingEducationEducationCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

University of California, Berkeley

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Dec 12, 2014

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%
Full breach record for University of California, Berkeley →2 incidents on file

University of California, Berkeley reported unauthorized access to servers in its Real Estate Division in mid-to-late September 2014. The breach potentially exposed names, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, and driver's license numbers. The university shut down the servers, engaged a security firm, and offered one year of credit monitoring to affected individuals.

Incident timeline

Sep 15, 2014

Begins

Dec 12, 2014

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.