Student Loan Breach Exposes 2.5M Records
2026-03-12T07:23:31Z•f713c309be0d140a362053d08cb9d451ba6c4b06fd2bf7b699ecdef9d092faeb
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What happened
A batch of August 2022 security stories: a 2.5M‑record student loan data breach; a watering‑hole campaign (likely APT TA423) deploying the ScanBox JS reconnaissance tool; a large phishing/MFA‑spoofing campaign dubbed ‘0ktapus’ impacting ~130 firms; a rise in ransomware activity led by LockBit and Conti offshoots; thousands of Chinese surveillance cameras being sold with access due to an unpatched critical ~11‑month‑old vulnerability; a CISA warning about active exploitation of a Palo Alto PAN‑OS firewall bug; and active zero‑day exploitation in Apple (iOS/macOS kernel and WebKit) and Chrome (R
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
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- Record identifier
- f713c309be0d140a362053d08cb9d451ba6c4b06fd2bf7b699ecdef9d092faeb
- Enrichment time
- 2026-03-12T07:23:31Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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