“The investigation determined that an unauthorized individual(s) gained access to the Department of Public Safety’s network between May 12, 2023, and Sept. 27, 2023.”
Attackers sat inside Stanford’s campus police network for four and a half months before anyone noticed. They walked out with Social Security numbers, passports, and for some people biometric and medical data on 27,000 individuals. Akira claimed 430GB in October and has already put it up on BitTorrent. Stanford took until March to say how many people it exposed, and this is its third breach since 2021.