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Cybersecurity threats and defenses at universities and colleges, including ransomware attacks, data breaches, and compromises of student and identity systems.
Osaka Metropolitan University cancelled classes after a suspected ransomware attack stopped about 500 servers, Japanese media reported. Records on at least 130,000 current and former students, faculty and others may be exposed, though the university has not confirmed any theft.
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University of Illinois Chicago confirmed hackers stole data from its College of Medicine servers in a ransomware attack the Booba gang says netted 344 GB. The outage stayed inside one of UIC's 16 colleges, and the investigation into whose records were taken is still open.
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Technical University of Denmark says a login with compromised credentials to its IAM system may have exposed data on up to 200,000 people. The records reach back to 2003, and active users' entries include CPR national ID numbers that DTU warns can be used for identity fraud.
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The University of Texas at San Antonio says the intrusion never reached core systems. It still took phones, course registration and tuition payments down with classes two days out.
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LMU Munich detected the intrusion on Wednesday and disclosed it on Saturday, and it still cannot say when the access began or how many of its more than 52,000 students are in the enrollment file.
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