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(The Center Square) – The University of Missouri is informing current and former employees and students to be aware their personal information might have been accessed in a global data
Some personal information was compromised in the software data breach that affected the University of Missouri System and other organizations.
The University of Missouri System is the latest institution battered in the MOVEit cybersecurity breach sweeping the nation. The system—which spans four campuses, research parks and a statewide health system—announced Wednesday that it was involved in a potential data breach with software product MOVEit. In May, a ransomware group named Cl0P took credit for a massive cyberattack against hundreds of organizations, including higher ed institutions. The group claims it stole data by breaching MOVEit, a software product used for file transfers.
This summer's global cyber attack involved the MOVEit software, which is used by some UM System departments as well as outside vendors.