UMBC has been informed that a third-party vendor for campus event ticketing, AudienceView (also known as University Tickets), recently experienced a payment card data security breach with its...
February 28, 2023
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3:59 PM
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Scammers get creative
Recently the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) received notification of two phishing campaigns at other universities. While neither of these has been reported at UMBC, we are posting this...
January 6, 2023
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4:44 PM
As we prepare for the winter break, we commonly see a surge in malicious activity toward user accounts. Users receive emails warning about unpaid invoices, expired passwords, or full inboxes....
December 22, 2022
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1:44 PM
Russian streaming service impacts over 7 million accounts
In August 2022, news broke of an attack against the Russian streaming service "START". The incident led to the exposure of 44 million records containing 7.4 million unique email addresses. The...
November 4, 2022
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3:08 PM
Portugal's national airline victim of ransomware attack
In August 2022, the Portuguese airline TAP Air Portugal was the target of a ransomware attack perpetrated by the Ragnar Locker gang who later leaked the compromised data via a public dark web...
October 28, 2022
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3:07 PM
Hackers list database of 5.4 million records for sale
In January 2022, a vulnerability in Twitter's platform allowed an attacker to build a database of email addresses and phone numbers of millions of users of the social platform. In a disclosure...
October 19, 2022
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3:23 PM
Shared data has already been used in attacks
In June 2020, the web development site SitePoint suffered a data breach that exposed over one million customer records. Impacted data included email and IP addresses, names, usernames, bios and...
October 18, 2022
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4:05 PM
In August 2022, the online feces delivery service ShitExpress suffered a data breach that exposed 24,000 unique email addresses. The addresses spanned invoices, gift cards, promotions and PayPal...
October 18, 2022
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3:57 PM
Fraudster Impersonating UMBC Officials
This morning, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received a report of fraudulent emails sent to the University System of Maryland office.. The fraudster is forging the name of UMBC...
October 13, 2022
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11:49 AM
Another Scam
On October 4, 2022, a job offer was posted in at least one group on the MyUMBC site. The job offer was supposedly from Prof. Erika Fountain for "Administrative Assistants". This posting was an...
October 6, 2022
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7:21 PM