In September 2020, a Portable Document Format(PDF) file and digital document service, Nitro, suffered a data breach. This breach contained data for approximately 78 million customers and was exposed online. The customer information included names, passwords and the titles of documents. No financial information was leaked.

 1,440 UMBC accounts were victims of this breach. The victims are being notified via their UMBC emails and/or their alternate emails. If you have a Nitro account, please contact them to see if you have been affected by this breach. To see if you were involved in any other breach, visit: https://haveibeenpwned.com/.

More about Nitro data breach:

https://infosec.berry.edu/2021/01/19/data-breach-notification-nitro-pdf/#:~:text=In%20September%20of%202020%20there%20was%20a%20breach,or%20vikings.berry.edu%20email%20address%20 included%20in%20the%20 breach.

If you have any questions or concerns, email us at: security@umbc.edu.

Information about this breach was provided to us by Have I Been Pwned(HIBP). 

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