US Michigan State University 2012 Hacking (Q14521)
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A data breach risk event
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US Michigan State University 2012 Hacking
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A data breach risk event
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January 2012
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An Anonymous hacker named DARWINARE has claimed to have breached the Michigan State University server and compromised the database. He has published the stolen database in AnonPaste. It consists of about 1500 login credentials. The leak contains sensitive information including email address and encrypted passwords. Other than login credentials , they dump also contains few other data including Use ID, State, Country, College, Home address and name. The hack was announced by the hacker on the Twitter with a link to the AnonPaste. According to the hackers statement , he has extracted the database by MySQL Oracle Database Backdoor . (English)
