We noted Wednesday that UCLA had suffered a cyber attack and data breach. All UCLA would say is that those people affected had been notified. It gave no indication of how many such people there are or exactly what data regarding those people had been exposed.
As it turns out, the same breach has affected CalPERS and CalSTRS. From the Sacramento Bee we learn that the breach involved such things as Social Security numbers and other personal information:
California State Treasurer Fiona Ma urged the chief executive officers of the nation’s two largest public pension funds to hold special board meetings on a recent data breach that exposed Social Security numbers, birth dates and other personal information on nearly 1.2 million retirees and other beneficiaries. Ma sits on the board of both pension funds: the California Public Employees Retirement System and the California State Teachers’ Retirement System. “While it appears that member retirement benefits are not at risk, those affected may ... now be especially vulnerable to identity theft and other fraudulent activity,” Ma said...
Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article276811231.html.
Maybe UCLA needs to say something more about the magnitude of the breach. Are those affected being given free data monitoring?
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