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Amber Bouman

Almost 900,000 students and alumni hit in major college data breach — financial-aid info, Social Security numbers and more exposed

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An unknown hacker has stolen the sensitive personal, financial and health information of nearly 870,000 people in a major data breach at Columbia University.

As reported by Bleeping Computer, the breach, which was discovered and reported to law enforcement after a June 24th outage affected some of the university's systems, impacts current and former students, family members, employees and applicants.

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