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The stolen information was given during the application process. |
The article goes on to say that the University of California Police Department and Sacramento Valley High Tech Crimes Task Forces began monitoring the students' information after the students went to set up campus computer accounts and discovered accounts were already created in their names.
What can be done for these students? Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine Bennie Osburn "offered what's become the standard response to data breaches: regret for the security breach, assurances that the school is working with law enforcement, promises of improved security, and advice to place fraud alerts on their credit-card accounts and to periodically run credit reports to ensure new financial accounts haven't been surreptitiously opened in the students' names," states the same article.
"We also are recommending that the applicants who have been admitted to UC Davis immediately change their campus computer passwords and establish validation questions as safeguards for their accounts," Osburn said in a statement.
Hackers may also have stolen records of applicants for the 2004-2005 school year.
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