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University of California data breach (2020)

In December 2020, the University of California suffered a data breach due to vulnerability in in a third-party provider, Accellion. The breach exposed extensive personal data on both students and staff including 547 thousand unique email addresses, names, dates of birth, genders, social security…

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University of California
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547.4K
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Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2020-12-24, University of California was affected by a data breach. Approximately 547,422 accounts were exposed. In December 2020, the University of California suffered a data breach due to vulnerability in in a third-party provider, Accellion. The breach exposed extensive personal data on both students and staff including 547 thousand unique email addresses, names, dates of birth, genders, social security…

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#UniversityofCalifornia
  2. universityofcalifornia.eduhttps://universityofcalifornia.edu

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