J-School Applicants Hacked; Berkeley Shows Strange Confusion About How 'Hacking' Works
UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism is put in the unfortunate position of notifying 500 applicants that their Social Security numbers have been stolen in a recent campus security breach.
A hacker broke into the school’s web server in July and potentially accessed the personal data of applicants that had applied to the program between September 2007 and May 2009, reports the Daily Californian.
This sucks. First, you sign up to pay like a hundred gazillion dollars for a degree that can make you harder to hire, in an industry that nobody’s hiring in.
Then some script kiddie gets up in Berkeley’s base and steals all their d00ds’ data.
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