Mar 30, 2005
Thief steals UC-Berkeley laptop
University of California-Berkeley police are investigating the theft of a campus laptop computer containing information on 98,000 individuals.
The university said a person who walked into its Graduate Division offices on March 11 was seen leaving with the laptop by a campus employee, who reported the theft to campus police.
The computer contained information on most individuals who applied to or attended UC-Berkeley’s graduate school between 1976 and 2004.
About a third of the computer’s files contained dates of birth and or addresses as well as Social Security numbers and names.