University of California, Berkeley (The Regents of the University of California)

University of California, Berkeley (The Regents of the University of California) notified California AG on Feb 26, 2016 of a data breach, which occurred on Dec 28, 2015. Data exposed: Social Security number, Financial / bank account, Name.

Case file (dates, days to notice against the statute, what the letter offers, prior incidents)

Organization: University of California, Berkeley (The Regents of the University of California)
Source: California AG · source record
Date reported: Feb 26, 2016
Date(s) of breach: Monday, December 28, 2015
Residents affected: Not published by this source
Data exposed: Social Security number Financial / bank account Name
Notice letter: Sample notice (PDF)
Discovered: Dec 29, 2015, as stated in the letter
"What We Are Doing UC Berkeley campus officials became aware of unauthorized access on December 29, 2015 and promptly removed all potentially impacted servers from the network so that they could no longer be accessed."
Days to notice: 59 days from discovery (Dec 29, 2015) to the California record (Feb 26, 2016). Statute: 30 days from discovery or notification of the breach (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.82). Over the statutory period
Offered in the letter: credit or identity monitoring through Experian
First seen by BreachTally: 2026-10-30 16:21 UTC

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