Security Breach at US Universities

Massive security breach at US universities.

US universities have been affected by a major data breach.

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A massive data breach has hit US Universities including Stanford University, University of California, University of Miami, University of Colorado Boulder, Yeshiva University, Syracuse University, and University of Maryland. Hackers have stolen terabytes of student, prospective student, and employee personal information including transcripts, financial info, mailing addresses, phone numbers, usernames, passwords and Social Security Numbers. These breaches are part of the larger Accellion FTA leak which has affected ~50 organizations. Students who applied to these colleges (or even have an account in the case of UC) are at risk of having their personal and financial information leaked publicly online including their Social Security Numbers. The hackers have sent emails to some victims. If you recieve one of these emails, do not click the attached link unless you understand how to use Tor. The hackers are holding the universities at ransom. Unless the universities pay the ransom, the hackers will continue publishing student information.

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Responses from universities are in bold.

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Updates

3/31/21

• Hackers post first 1.3 GB UC and Stanford data dump on their website.
• University of California releases a statement.
• UC Davis releases a statement.

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