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Professional, coordinated attackers with a plan, breached a server maintained by Anonym University and walked off with nearly 800,000 records, and have used the information to commit at least 30 acts of identity theft.
Anonym officials reported on 19/06/2018, that between June and December of this year, a server containing records on some 3,500 employees was breached. Notification using all campus email was initiated, and the staffers were told to watch for unusual patterns on their credit card statements.
The investigation is ongoing, with both an external expert consultant and a cyber-crime investigators from Cyber team.
“The integrity of the Anonym’s system has been restored and there is no indication of any additional instances of compromise of personal information,” said Dr. Praveen, university president.
The lack of further incident is good news to be certain, Dr. Praveen’s memo to the university staff on the incident is both disturbing and eye opening from an Information Security perspective. If anything, it can serve as a nightmare scenario for organizations on data protection.
According to the investigation details till now, between June and December of this year, the attackers targeted a single folder on the main Anonym’s server. The folder housed several files on it with personal information, but no single file had a complete set of information.
“However, by working between files, the hacker(s) have been able to piece together enough information to be able to engage in the theft of identity of at least 100 employees...by working between files, data regarding Name, Adhar number,Pan number, Date of Birth, and Deposit Account numbers were accessed. Additional directory information such as address, phone numbers, college email address, etc. was also likely compromised.”
In addition, the stolen data has been used to apply for SBI credit cards under the employee’s name.  
“The access pathway used to invade our main server has been sealed. We hope to know, by the end of this week precisely who had their information compromised,” Dr. Praveen added.

Story by SAWAN BHAN
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