Hackers breached University of Maryland systems and obtained data belonging to more than 300.000 people associated with the university and its campuses College Park and Shady Grove.
Details of the details of the faculty, students and various collaborators have been exposed by this infringement ασφάλειας. Τα δεδομένα που κλάπηκαν περιλαμβάνουν τους αριθμούς κοινωνικής ασφάλισης, ονόματα, ημερομηνίες γέννησης και πανεπιστημιακές ταυτότητες, όπως αναφέρει το ehackingnews.
Invaders were able to access a database containing information dating from 1998. In addition to data theft, hackers did not do any harm to the server hosting the site.
University President Wallace D. Loh says they are looking into the security breach in cooperation with authorities and will try their best to prevention such attacks in the future.