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HELLO! FROM THE OFFICE OF PRIVACY
Welcome to our Privacy Newsletter. In this edition, we look at cyber-attacks and how they impact privacy.

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COLONIAL PIPELINE HACK CLAIMED BY RUSSIAN GROUP DARKSIDE SPURS EMERGENCY ORDER FROM WHITE HOUSE
The federal government issued a rare emergency declaration after a cyberattack on a major U.S. pipeline choked the transportation of oil to the Eastern U.S. 
ARE UNIVERSITIES AT GREATER RISK OF CYBER-ATTACKS?
The last year has seen an unprecedented change in the way organizations operate, with the education sector being a particular victim of this.
HACKERS TRY TO EXTORT UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO IN CYBER-ATTACK
Hackers are trying to extort the University of Colorado after a cyberattack that potentially compromised personal information from more than 310,000 files, including student data, medical information and several Social Security numbers.
UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE SUFFERS CYBER-ATTACK THAT TAKES DOWN ITS ENTIRE IT NETWORK
There has been a sharp rise in ransomware attacks targeting higher education institutions in the last year, partly as a result of additional vulnerabilities brought about by the shift to online learning during COVID-19.
UC BERKELEY CONFIRMS DATA BREACH, BECOMES LATEST VICTIM OF ACCELLION CYBER-ATTACK
UC Berkeley said that the data breach was due to an earlier intrusion suffered by third-party provider Accellion, a secure file transfer service, which was used by the university.

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