Hackers publish personal information stolen during Harvard, UPenn data breaches
TL;DR
Hacking group ShinyHunters published over 1 million records each from Harvard and UPenn after the universities refused to pay a ransom for data stolen in last year's breaches.
Source: TechCrunch
A notorious hacking group has claimed responsibility for last year’s data breaches at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and published the data that they claim to have stolen from the two schools. On Feb. 4, the group known as ShinyHunters published what it claims are more than 1 million records from each university on the group’s dedicated leak site, which the gang uses to extort its victims. The data published by ShinyHunters, which TechCrunch has seen, appears to match the type of information that both universities said was stolen last year. The hackers said they published the stolen data because the universities refused to pay a ransom to stop them from doing so. Full Story