Impact Of Data Breach On Students
Students are an integral part of the society and their personal data should be kept confidential. Making them publicly available is a huge privacy breach, states the researcher.
While the data can be misused in different ways, here are two main repercussions of a breach:
- Telemarketing companies can use the phone numbers/emails to target the students to promote their goods/services.
- Spammers/cyber criminals can target students to launch “Phishing” attacks or plan “Social Engineering” attacks on them which can have multiple negative consequences.
What to Do If Your Data Gets Publicly Exposed?
“When leaks include login credentials, the best practice is to change the password and set up 2 Factor Authentication because in most cases people use the same password for all of their social media accounts thus giving an upper hand to cyber criminals to take over account after account,” Majumder told The Quint.
But in cases like this, where PII of students are…