Security nightmare laptop ends up on Ebay
21.09.2005
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A LAPTOP which contained the personal data of more than 98,000 current and former UC Berkeley students, has turned up on eBay. A college student, Shuki Alburati, 18, faces charges of buying the computer from a woman who stole it from a UC Berkeley office in March. Inspector Knacker of the Yard fingered Alburati's collar after he tried to flog it on the auction site.
Analysis of the computer at a Silicon Valley forensic lab showed someone had reformatted the computer, making it hard to discover whether anyone had accessed the names and Social Security numbers of 98,369 graduate students.
However, the university said there is nothing to prove that any identity theft or credit card theft happened. So that is OK then.
Alburati claims he didn’t know the laptop was stolen. However, he admitted buying the computer for only $300 or $340 from an unknown woman outside his apartment on Leavenworth Street in San Francisco. He later sold it for $1,195.50.
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