University of California Data Leak
Clop ransomware is one of the finest threat actors who leveraged the Accellion vulnerability to deep. The secure file transferring protocol was used by several organizations, including the government agencies, who have fallen victims to the hacks made by several threat actors. One among them is the University of California, which is now informing its students and others about the incident, where the attacker is leaking their stolen data. Clop ransomware, who may have beached the University of California through the Accellion vulnerability, has shared few screenshots of the stolen data on its dark web leak site earlier this week. The information leaked includes the names, photos of individuals, social security numbers, date of birth, residential address, and passport numbers. In some cases, there’s also PII included from the UC community members. Also, the retirement documentation and benefit adjustment requests of some individuals. As all this information is deemed sensitive, the University is informing the people about the leak. It warns that the hackers are sending mass emails to people to force them into paying money. The University also informs that about 300 organizations have fallen victim to the same vulnerability. Besides the University of California, others US universities who fallen victim to ransomware groups recently include the University of Colorado, Miami, Yeshiva, and Stanford. Threat actors concerning universities are now leaking the stolen data after months of the hack.
