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[Contained][Severity: Major][Intrusion]

Meiji University: a server of the education and research system at the Ikuta campus was accessed without authorization and 36,692 email addresses may have been stolen

A server at the Ikuta campus was attacked from July 2022 and the attack was found on October 19. 36,692 email addresses of students and staff may have been stolen.

Disclosed

2023-02-09

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

Unknown

Downtime

Unknown

What happened

  1. Attacks on the server of the education and research system had begun from this day. [1]

  2. It found that the server of the education and research system at the Ikuta campus was under attack. [1] [2]

  3. It announced the case. [1] [2]

Impact

The email addresses of 36,692 accounts of the university mail service "MeijiMail" may have been stolen. For 48 of them the name can be inferred from the address. Names, addresses, phone numbers, passwords and grades were not stolen. [1] [2]

Timeline

  1. Started 2022-07-25
  2. Detected 2022-10-19
  3. Disclosed 2023-02-09
  4. 199 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Intrusion]
Impact
[Data leak]
Entry point
Unknown

Data exposed or at risk

[E-mail address]

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][Official]本学サーバーへの不正アクセスによる被害および個人情報漏洩の可能性について | 明治大学Meiji University · 2023-02-09
  2. [2][News]明治大学のサーバに不正アクセス、36,692件のメールアドレスが窃取された可能性ScanNetSecurity · 2023-02-14 08:05