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Sonoma State University has disclosed unauthorized access to seven of its workstations happened in July.

The attack at Sonoma State University exposed 61,000 student names and Social Security numbers, according to a release from the college.

In response, the college will notify those applicants who applied between 1995 and 2002 of the problem. California state law requires this notification to take place. In the statement, the college said no other personal information was on the affected workstations.

Sonoma State says other personal information, like credit cards numbers and student loan data, was not exposed during the break-in. The college characterizes its systems as "very safe" and in their statement said: "Sonoma uses state-of-the-art technology to monitor network activity and was able to discover this hacker very quickly."

"After the illegal access was confirmed, Information Technology took immediate action to secure the computers. There is no evidence that personal information was retrieved," the college noted in its statements.

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