"Rutgers Among Universities Impacted by MOVEit Hack That Exposed Data"

Rutgers recently announced that it was among numerous universities across the nation that may have exposed the personal information of students and employees through vendors that use a particular file transfer software that was hacked by a Russian ransomware gang.  In the case of Rutgers, the university was notified by the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC), a nonprofit that provides a range of higher education data and research services, of a cybersecurity issue involving NSC information, including data from the university.  The NSC issue involves a vulnerability in a third-party software tool, MOVEit Transfer.  The NSC determined that an unauthorized party obtained certain files transferred through the clearinghouse's MOVEit environment,' including files from customers.  Rutgers noted that the incident was not a data breach of Rutgers' systems.  School officials stated that, at this time, the impact on Rutger's information is unclear.  The NSC works with 3,600 colleges and universities, including Rutgers, to gather student data required by the U.S. Department of Education.  The breach affected multiple other universities, including Stony Brook University, Middlebury College, Rutgers University, Loyola University Chicago, Trinity College in Connecticut, Colorado State University, the University of Dayton, and the University of Alaska.  

NJ Advanced Media reports: "Rutgers Among Universities Impacted by MOVEit Hack That Exposed Data"