The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) announced on Thursday that it had decided to slap penalty surcharges of 623 million won ($459,000) on Jeonbuk National University and 343 million won on Ewha Womans University. On July 28, 2024, the...
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‘Ghost’ students are hijacking millions from colleges—and locking real human students out of classes
Scammers disguised as thousands of fake students are flooding colleges across the U.S. with enrollment applications. The “students” are registering under stolen or fabricated identities, getting accepted to schools, and then vanishing with financial aid...
A private liberal arts college in Portland, Ore., settled a class-action lawsuit after cyber criminals stole data of employees, students and alumni in 2023, and the college didn’t send notifications until a year later. Click here to read the full...
Earlier this year, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), one of the Netherlands’ leading technical universities, demonstrated the uncomfortable truth that even organisations that tick all the cyber security boxes can fall victim to sophisticated...
In a general context where many institutions are subject to cyberattacks, Sorbonne University has been the victim of a cyber attack. Its information system is experiencing significant disruptions due to the detection of a security incident that has...