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[Resolved][Severity: Moderate][Credential abuse]

Takasaki City University of Economics: a lecturer's email account was accessed without authorization and used to send about 6,000 spam emails

One lecturer's email account was abused to send about 6,000 spam emails. No leak was confirmed.

Disclosed

2021-06-29

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. Between 01:25 and 02:37, about 6,000 spam emails were sent from one lecturer's email account. [1]

  2. It announced the case. [1]

Timeline

  1. Started, Detected 2021-06-15
  2. Disclosed 2021-06-29
  3. 14 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Credential abuse]
Impact
Entry point
Stolen credentials

Data exposed or at risk

–

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][News]高崎経済大学教員のメールアカウントに不正アクセス、6,000件の迷惑メール送信踏み台にScanNetSecurity · 2021-07-12 08:00