Earlier this month, a group of former and current students from the University of California Berkeley filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging the Internet firm of scanning the educational Gmail accounts of the school to gather analytics data.
It seems that UC Berkeley’s cyber troubles do not end there, as officials of the school have sent out warnings to about 80,000 people due to a hacker attack on its system which stored sensitive data.
The people are composed of former and current faculty, students, staff and vendors, who may have had their bank account information and Social Security numbers compromised.
According to a UC Berkeley statement, an individual hacker or a group of hackers were able to infiltrate computers part of the Berkeley Financial System, or BFS, in late December 2015. BFS is a software which the school uses for financial management purposes, including making purchases and other payments aside from salaries. For the full article click here
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