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Chinese hackers hit Penn State University, 18K people impacted

Penn State Universitys College of Engineering has been targeted by two highly sophisticated cyber attacks over the last two years. The attacks were particularly sophisticated and bypassed defense systems in place at the Pennsylvania State University that on average repels more than 22 million cyber attacks every day. The University has notified about 18,000 individuals that could have been impacted by the data breach, the organization is offering them one year of free credit monitoring. The list of the Universities victims of cyber attacks includes the. University of California, the University of Maryland, and University of Southern California.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/36867/cyber-crime/penn-state-university-hacked.html

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