Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records

2026-07-21T19:23:32Z5df4473b03075c8e111f3ecf9b70240bf30e3063c54fb2dfb5898c3c91b1cddc
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What happened

Threatpost feed (Aug 2022) reports multiple high-impact incidents: a 2.5M-record student-loan data breach; a watering‑hole campaign (attributed to APT TA423) delivering the ScanBox JavaScript reconnaissance/keylogging tool; a large phishing campaign by '0ktapus' spoofing multi-factor authentication and impacting 130+ firms; rising ransomware activity led by LockBit and Conti offshoots; widespread sale of access to Chinese surveillance cameras due to an unpatched critical CVE; a Palo Alto PAN-OS firewall vulnerability under active exploit prompting a CISA warning; travel-reservation link/phish/

Why it matters

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Evidence and limitations

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threatpost
Record identifier
5df4473b03075c8e111f3ecf9b70240bf30e3063c54fb2dfb5898c3c91b1cddc
Enrichment time
2026-07-21T19:23:32Z
AI-assisted enrichment
Yes

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