The University of California, Berkeley recently began notifying approximately 1,600 people that their personal information may have been accessed when servers in the university’s Real Estate Division were breached by hackers.

The breach was first discovered in September 2014, after which the affected servers were removed from the network, and UC Berkeley began reviewing the data stored on the servers to look for personal information.

“Because the compromised servers contained such a large volume of data, an outside firm was brought in to lead the search for any personally identifiable information on the servers,” the university said in a statement.

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