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Data Breach: Hackers Steal Information from Carnegie Mellon University |


The US-based Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), which is known for its top tech and computer science programs, recently announced being hit by a cyberattack. The university, located in Pittsburgh revealed that in August 2023, hackers stole data from the educational institution. In a statement to KDKA-TV (spotted by CBS News), a CMU spokesperson said that this breach at the university’s computer systems has compromised the personal information of more than 7,300 people.
The report also notes that a third party accessed files of the university which included personal information.The people possibly impacted are current or former students, employees, applicants and contractors, the report added. As per the report, those who were impacted have been notified and the university is offering them credit monitoring services through Experian.

Read what CMU has to say

“On August 25, 2023, the Information Security Office at Carnegie Mellon University detected suspicious activity on a university computer system. A third party briefly accessed files which included some personal information of current or former students, employees, applicants or contractors. Our information security office secured the system within hours of detection and quickly engaged law enforcement. The university recently concluded its full investigation of the breach and sent notification to anyone whose information may have been compromised. There is no evidence of fraud or inappropriate use of the information from those files. Out of an abundance of caution, CMU is offering credit monitoring and other services through Experian for anyone who may be impacted. A total of 7,343 people received notifications.”Cyberattacks targeting colleges and universities around the world have increased with time. In 2023, several educational institutions across the world were attacked by cyber criminals.
According to the data by market research company KonBriefing, cyberattackers targeted institutions in four different countries in December itself. This includes universities from Canada, Austria, Lithuania and Australia.
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Aryaka Partners With Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab To Research Threat Mitigation


  • Aryaka announced it formed a strategic partnership with CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU’s) Security and Privacy Institute. These are the details.

Aryaka, a leader in fully managed SD-WAN and SASE solutions, today announced it has formed a strategic partnership with CyLab – which is Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU’s) Security and Privacy Institute – to research new threat mitigation techniques and innovate solutions for enterprise networking and security.

Launched in 2003, CyLab is Carnegie Mellon University’s public/private collaborative computer security and privacy research institute. With over 100 core and affiliated faculty and 100 graduate students, it is one of the largest cyber security research centers in the United States. And Aryaka’s partnership with CyLab will consist of providing funding and industry expertise to assist research and innovate sophisticated security techniques to address today’s most pressing threat issues.

Aryaka is also sponsoring CyLab’s Future Enterprise Security (FutureEnterprise@CyLab) initiative, a multi-disciplinary approach to making complex security solutions available to all. And the sponsorship will connect Aryaka with students, academics, and other key industry partners to make security more accessible and understandable to end-users.

As a founding sponsor of this initiative, Aryaka will provide support at multiple levels in the program. This ranges from guiding the research topics based on the newest challenges and threats our customers are encountering, providing industry expertise, data sets for learning and building AI models, feedback on the efficacy of various techniques as well as practical experience to the students via mentorship and internships.

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“Aryaka shares the future of enterprise security vision of CyLab. Together we will develop and innovate security techniques to defend against emerging and immediate risks and democratize it via open source to small and large enterprises. With acute skills shortage in cybersecurity, most enterprises are faced with tremendous pressure and risk—when strong tools are available to everyone, we’re all more…

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Carnegie Mellon’s Information Networking Institute Applauds Alumni Authors for … – PR Newswire (press release)

Carnegie Mellon's Information Networking Institute Applauds Alumni Authors for
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