University of Greenwich

The personal details of hundreds of London-based research students of the University of Greenwich were compromised in a data breach incident in February 2016.

The exposed information included Students' names, addresses, dates of birth, mobile phone numbers, and signatures.

The university after knowing about the incident removed the documents and even contacted Google to try to ensure cached copies of the documents could not be retrieved from its search engine.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35587529

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/university-of-greenwich

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"type": "Breach",
"date": "02/2016",
"severity": "80",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"

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                        'location': 'London',
                        'name': 'University of Greenwich',
                        'type': 'Educational Institution'}],
 'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': ['Names',
                                                         'addresses',
                                                         'dates of birth',
                                                         'mobile phone numbers',
                                                         'signatures'],
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 'description': 'The personal details of hundreds of London-based research '
                'students of the University of Greenwich were compromised in a '
                'data breach incident.',
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                                 'addresses',
                                 'dates of birth',
                                 'mobile phone numbers',
                                 'signatures']},
 'response': {'containment_measures': ['Removed the documents',
                                       'Contacted Google to ensure cached '
                                       'copies could not be retrieved from its '
                                       'search engine']},
 'title': 'University of Greenwich Data Breach',
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