UC Davis vet school admission records hacked
A criminal investigation into the apparent hacking and misuse of electronic admissions records at the University of California Davis School of Veterinary Medicine has been launched by university police.
The university determined June 15 that its computer-security safeguards had been breached and someone had gained access to the personal information of an estimated 1,120 vet school applicants for the 2007-2008 school year, including 131 students who already had been accepted, according to the university.
The hackers had access to information including the applicants' names, birth dates and, in most cases, Social Security numbers.
