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3,000 Kent State student emails hacked

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Dissent

Aidan Coyne reports:

On Sept. 19 Kent State announced over 3,000 student emails had been hacked the week before.

According to Robert Eckman of Kent State’s IT department, the breach was a result of credential harvesting.

[…]

According to Eckman there were two Credential Harvesting incidents that led to this breach, one on 9/22-23 and one on 9/12-13.

Read more on KentWired.com.

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