The three private colleges are among more than 900 colleges and universities nationwide that handle applicant details using the software system Slate. The company said it didn’t know of other breaches, and the colleges declined to discuss the extent of the compromised information.
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Three Private Colleges Confirm Breach of Admissions Files
Oberlin College in Ohio, Grinnell College in Iowa and Hamilton College in New York have each disclosed that hackers broke into their applicant-data systems and emailed applicants offering to sell them the information in their admissions files. So reports The Washington Post.
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