Privacy Breach Shockwaves: Colorado State University Students and Staff Impacted by Data Breach

According to CBS News, a Colorado university is at risk of exposing 30,000 current and former students’ data to hackers. As reported by the University of Colorado Boulder, the incident is the result of a cyber-attack perpetrated against a third-party service called Atlassian in response to a request. 

An institution’s Office of Information Technology uses software called Atlassian to keep track of documents and resources shared by all departments. 

The attack led to the illegal access of a few files stored within the program due to the nature of the attack. As a result, potentially sensitive data, including the personal information of both current and former students, was exposed. The types of information exposed ranged from names, addresses, dates of birth, telephone numbers, and genders to names, student ID numbers, and addresses. 

According to CSU, the Clop ransomware operation suffered a recent data-theft attack entitled MOVEit Transfer, which stole sensitive personal information from current and former students, employees, and others in the university community.

In addition to the nearly 28,000 students and 6,000 academic and administrative staff members at Colorado State University, the university ha

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