UC student notification of possible identity theft

Posted by Marco Cozzi on April 06th 2010 to Administrative,Consumer Protection and Security

Some of you may have received an email yesterday (4/5/10) from our ASUC President Miguel Daal (subject: Vote April 6 – 8 ASUC Elections, April 24 Boat Cruise & Credit/Debit):

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Credit/Debit Card Fraud:
A wave of credit/debit card fraud has hit UC students in the last two
weeks. Carefully check your recent credit and debit card statements,
and encourage your friends to do the same. If you are a victim, it
is *very important* that you file a police report with the City of
Berkeley PD so that the source of the credit card number leak can
be found. A report takes 5 minutes: call (510) 981-5900 to talk to
an officer.
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Is TJX history is repeating itself? (albeit on a smaller scale); the banks have complained of many UC students have to report stolen credit card, identity theft, etc, and are trying to identify the source of the leak. This trace connection is obviously really difficult to determine and I wonder what the culprit’s fate will be. I’m curious if they recorded there information in clear text.

Make sure to check that you are not a victim!

It’s also interesting to consider the effect of this email notification. At a basic level, the overall awareness of this problem is not just limited to the small subgroup of student victims, but now the entire student population has been notified. I wonder if any groups will band together and protest or boycott whatever company/store/website/party (to be identified) lost their personal information.

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