Outrage as personal data of Kashmir University students, teachers ‘hacked, put on sale’ on internet

The reports of the alleged ‘leak’ of database of about ‘one million’ Kashmir University students and teachers, with details like registration number, phone number, email address and password, by hackers has sparked an outrage and prompted the varsity to start analysis of the ‘data breach’.

The university, however, insisted that their preliminary analysis revealed that the data was ‘unmodified’.

Reports and social media users claimed that the database of the varsity was put on sale on a particular hacking forum by a ‘threat actor’ going by the name of ‘VictorLustig’ on August 6 for just $250. It ultimately deleted the thread from the hacking forum after the issue gained traction on social media.