The University of Alaska Anchorage’s Mat-Su campus suffered a data breach incident in september 2016.
Employee credentials were utilised by an unknown hacker to gain access to a server.
The compromised system had 5,416 unique names and social security numbers.
On the hard drive, along with addresses and phone numbers, were some people's educational information, including transcripts, appeals forms, and grant award amounts.
They investigated the incident and provided safeguards, such as services for preventing identity theft,
an insurance plan for anyone affected by the data leak that will pay them back for any bogus expenses, total accessibility to their fraud resolution specialists, in the event that a person's identity is stolen, ID Experts will assist in resolving the situation thanks to this protection.
Source: https://www.databreaches.net/mat-su-campus-hit-by-data-breach-more-than-5000-affected/
"id": "UNI14118622",
"linkid": "university-of-alaska-fairbanks",
"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "09/2016",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"