Nearly 870,000 current and former students, employees, and applicants of Columbia University had sensitive personal, financial, and health information stolen after a network breach in May.
The Ivy League institution discovered the breach following a June 24 outage and confirmed the theft after investigating with external cybersecurity experts. According to filings with Maine’s Attorney General, the compromised data includes names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, contact details, demographic data, academic history, financial aid information, and any shared insurance or health records.
While Columbia has no evidence of misuse, the university is offering two years of free credit monitoring, fraud consultation, and identity theft restoration services through Kroll. The breach reportedly involved the theft of 460 GB of data.
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