3.5 Million Affected by University of Phoenix Data Breach

The University of Phoenix is one of the many victims of the recent Oracle EBS hacking campaign attributed to the Cl0p ransomware group.

The University of Phoenix has admitted that millions of individuals are affected by a data breach stemming from a recent attack on the company’s Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) instance.

The Oracle EBS campaign, claimed by the Cl0p ransomware group but believed to have been carried out by a cluster of the FIN11 threat group, targeted more than 100 organizations, including major companies and universities.

The hackers exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Oracle EBS to gain access to data stored by customers in the enterprise management software.

The University of Phoenix confirmed in early December that it was targeted in the Oracle EBS campaign.

The EBS attacks were likely conducted over the summer and the campaign came to light in early October. The University of Phoenix said it ...