The Michigan State University was breached by cybercriminals who attempted to blackmail the institution by attempting to profit from the hacking of a database that held 400,000 records of students and employees.
An unauthorised entity gained access to one of the organization's servers, according to Michigan State University, which reported a data breach.
There were names, social security numbers, and MSU identifying numbers of some current and past students and staff members in the database, which held over 400,000 information. Passwords, financial, educational, contact, or health information were not included.
Upon finding the intrusion, the institution stated it immediately pulled the impacted database down and ascertained that the hackers had only seen 449 documents out of the total.
Source: https://securityaffairs.com/53658/data-breach/michigan-state-university-hacked-2.html
"id": "MIC22151123",
"linkid": "michigan-state-university",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "11/2016",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization’s existence"