Two charged with hacking US university systems to mine cryptocurrency
Two Canadians were charged with breaching educational institutions’ networks and university supercomputers across several US states between 2016 and 2019 to install malware and cryptocurrency mining software. The compromised systems were used to mine Electroneum and store stolen login credentials, among other purposes. One of the defendants was extradited to the United States.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Malware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Misuse of educational institutions’ networks and university supercomputers across several US states
- Cause / method
- Breaching educational institutions’ networks and installing malware and cryptocurrency mining software
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataUsername
- Change your password, and also change it on any other site where you use the same one. Turn on two-factor authentication if available.
Timeline
- It was disclosed that two Canadians had been charged with breaching US educational institutions’ networks between 2016 and 2019 and that one of them had been extradited to the United States.
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