According to sources, California Northstate University (a Education organization in California) was hit with a cyber attack. It was first reported on 2023-02-15.
Source 1 | 2023-02-15
“We have Student admissions data include Name, Social Security Number, Date Of Birth, Address, Email, Telephone. All College employees W-2 include in the sample, “2022_CNU_W2_Report_.PDF” Why purchase the cyber-insurance with ransomware coverage policy if you don’t protect your students and staff? Ignoring will not make a problem go away“
“They also posted a file with 393 employee W-2 forms for 2022. W-2 forms are submitted to the IRS with employees’ names, address, Social Security numbers, wages earned, amounts of state and federal tax deductions, and other types of information. Such information is often desirable to criminals looking to engage in tax refund fraud or ID theft. AvosLocker did not post any of the student-related data it claims to have. Nor do they reveal how much more and what other employee-related information they may have exfiltrated.“
“Whether they will leak or sell the remaining data remains to be seen. Still, either way, the employees and students should probably immediately take steps to protect their credit reports and accounts from criminal activity. DataBreaches was unable to find email contact information for the CEO and CFO of the university but sent an email to some of the university’s administrators and one person from the student newsletter. There is no notice on the university’s website about any cyberattack.“
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