Hacker breaches Johns Hopkins University website
A hacker professing to be component of the Anonymous hackers group has breached the Johns Hopkins University website and leaked the info compromised from the database server.
The databases server consists of information of present-day and former biomedical engineering pupils. The stolen details incorporates title, cell phone range and electronic mail id of students.
The College states no info this sort of as Social Safety figures and credit card figures that would make identity theft a concert, is not associated in the breach.
In accordance to the Baltimore Solar, the so-termed nameless hacker tried to extort the university for further more accessibility to its database server, threatening to leak the stolen information unless of course college handed more than the server password.
The breach reportedly transpired in previous November, the vulnerability liable for the breach has been patched. The University is at this time performing with FBI and attempting to take away the leaked details from online.
