{"id":455,"date":"2005-03-29T13:31:26","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2005-03-29T13:31:26","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T20:31:26","slug":"thief-takes-laptop-with-berkeley-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/29\/thief-takes-laptop-with-berkeley-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief Takes Laptop With Berkeley Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2005\/03\/29\/national\/29data.html?adxnnl=1&#038;adxnnlx=1112131616-mirx\/TJ456G16la7iT9\/Pw&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;position=\">AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><I>SAN FRANCISCO, March 28 (AP) &#8211; A thief has stolen a laptop computer containing personal information about nearly 100,000 alumni, graduate students and past applicants at the University of California, Berkeley, university officials said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is the latest in a string of security breakdowns that have illustrated society&#8217;s growing vulnerability to identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>University officials announced the theft under a state law requiring that consumers be notified whenever the confidentiality of their Social Security numbers or other private information has been breached. The computer was taken on March 11.<\/p>\n<p>Notifying all of the 98,369 people affected by the Berkeley theft could prove difficult because some of the people received their degrees nearly 30 years ago, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The university police suspect that the thief was more interested in swiping a computer than people&#8217;s identities, a Berkeley spokeswoman, Maria Felde, said.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP: SAN FRANCISCO, March 28 (AP) &#8211; A thief has stolen a laptop computer containing personal information about nearly 100,000 alumni, graduate students and past applicants at the University of California, Berkeley, university officials said Monday. The incident is the latest in a string of security breakdowns that have illustrated society&#8217;s growing vulnerability to identity theft. University officials announced the theft under a state law requiring that consumers be notified whenever the confidentiality of their Social Security numbers or other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-berkeley","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-7l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}