Security News > 2023 > August > Colorado Department of Higher Education warns of massive data breach
2023-08-05 16:16
The Colorado Department of Higher Education discloses a massive data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after suffering a ransomware attack in June.
"On June 19, 2023, CDHE became aware it was the victim of a cybersecurity ransomware incident that impacted its network systems," explains the data breach notification.
The stolen data is then used in double-extortion attacks, where they threaten to publicly leak data unless a ransom is paid.
Even if the CDHE paid for the data to be deleted, some threat actors do not keep their promises and use the data for further attacks.
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