Sorbonne Université staff data on dark web: Hackers claim major breach

Employees at Sorbonne Université, one of the top universities in France and globally, may be at risk as hackers claim to have stolen banking details, salary data, IDs, and other sensitive and detailed information.

A threat actor on the dark web is disseminating sensitive data allegedly stolen from Sorbonne Université, a prestigious French university located in Paris. The university has 3,000 staff members, 22,000 students, and 2,500 doctoral students.

“The threat actor attached one sample file, which had 32,000 employee entries, including full names, departments they work at, job positions, emails, employment contract types, salaries, possible zip codes, and employee codes used in the internal systems,” Cybernews researchers, who reviewed the leaked data, said.

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