Personal Information of Over 200,000 Students Leaked

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Personal information on approximately 280,000 students in Israel was compromised last week in a cyberattack on the company AcadeME. May Brooks-Kempler of the Think Safe Cyber Facebook group estimates that about 280,000 current or former students may have had their personal information stolen, according to The Jerusalem Post.

AcadeME is a nationwide service provider that offers support for students looking for jobs throughout 11,000 different businesses. On June 20, it became the victim of a pro-Palestinian Malaysian hacking group known as “DragonForce”.

While AcadeME has denied the allegation, the attached code screenshots, server addresses, and a table containing email addresses and names say otherwise. Essentially, the evidence suggests that students’ phone numbers, addresses, full names, emails, and passwo…

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