The Kashmir University (KU) on Wednesday set up a special information technology team to look into the likely grey hackers, who hack for fun, and had made any attempt to put the data of thousands of undergraduate students for sale at $250 on the dark web recently.
Sources said the Kashmir University’s IT cell received a mail on Tuesday alerting about data theft and likely sale on the dark web. The alert contained data tables regarding undergraduate students’ semester examinations forms, with complete credentials of the students pursuing different courses with the Kashmir University.
“Our IT team’s probe has so far found that no data regarding marks sheets or any private details of students were highlighted in the tables. No data of teachers related to their services and salaries stand compromised,” Dr Maroof Qadri, Director Information Technology and Support Systems, told The Hindu.
