Hackers Broke Into Admissions Databases at 3 Colleges - and Then Offered to sell it

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Hackers Broke Into Admissions Databases at 3 Colleges — and Then Offered to Sell Applicants Their Files
March 7, 2019
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Hackers-Broke-Into-Admissions/245840

On Thursday morning a high-school senior in Texas received a strange email. “You are now presented with a unique opportunity,” it said, “to purchase your entire admissions file.”

The message appeared to have been sent by Grinnell College, to which the student had applied.
Whoever it was claimed to have accessed the college’s admissions database. As if to provide proof, the message included the applicant’s correct date of birth.

“Although the price tag is substantial,” the message said, “this offer presents a unique opportunity to look at yourself from the inside of Grinnell Admissions office absolutely unfiltered.” All he had to do was pay one Bitcoin, or about $3,900.
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Was Slate Breached?
Grinnell and Hamilton have something in common: They both use Slate, a popular software system, to manage their vast troves of applicants’ information.

Clark declined to name the third institution that had been affected, but The Wall Street Journal reported that it was Oberlin College, in Ohio.
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