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SANS Institute security breach

Posted on August 11, 2020 at 14:50 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Wow. If SANS can’t keep their systems secure, what hope do the rest of us have?

Looks like somebody sent a malicious Office 365 add-in to a SANS employee, who installed it. The program started forwarding emails, including some with personally identifiable information on 28,000 accounts.

Details here.

Security SANS Institute breach

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