The Daily Cal notes that those affected by the UC/Accellion data breach are not limited to employees, retirees, dependents, and beneficiaries. (Maybe "limited" is not the right word here.) Those affected also include students and alumni. Apparently, the latter have not been notified by UC:
On March 31, the UC system announced that it was one of 300 organizations affected by a nationwide cyberattack on Accellion’s File Transfer Appliance, a vendor service used for “transferring sensitive information.” Following the announcement, many students have reported their personal information being found on the dark web. The stolen information included Social Security numbers, email addresses, phone numbers and home addresses.
“We are working with federal law enforcement and external cybersecurity experts to investigate this incident,” said Stett Holbrook, spokesperson for the UC Office of the President. “In the meantime, we have notified the UC community and offered one year of complimentary credit monitoring and identity theft protection.”
Campus alumna Lauren Miller, who has formerly worked at The Daily Californian, alleged that her Social Security number, phone number, email address and home address were found on the dark web. Miller also claimed that her parents’ personal information was also accessed.
Miller said she learned about the breach through her bank and her sister, who is currently studying law at UCLA, rather than through the university. Other alumni have not received any official communication from the university, according to Miller...
Full story at https://www.dailycal.org/2021/04/27/uc-data-breach-leaks-students-personal-information-to-dark-web/
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