Breach Disclosure: Skolkovo Moscow School of Management
|by Alpha Team

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Details
On May 18, 2022, a newly registered threat actor "Addka72424" from the BreachForums posted a data breach package targeting Skolkovo Moscow School of Management (skolkovo[.]ru), a graduate business school located in Moscow, Russia. The threat actor noted that the data dump is approximately from September 2021, which includes 623 thousand records with the personal information of the site users, applicants, and course participants. The data dump was also circulated in a Russian Telegram channel "Утечки информации" ( translated as "Information leaks"- hxxps[:]//t[.]me/dataleak/2606) on May 19, 2022. From the package shared on BreachForums, ZeroFox extracted 393,016 email addresses. Of this total, an assessed 30,849 records contained hashed passwords. Other notable compromised data fields in this package include name, gender, date of birth, and phone number.

Recommendations
- If not already enabled, turn on the compromised credentials rule for all relevant entities and ensure relevant emails are entered for those entities, or reach out to [email protected] for assistance
- If one of your entities receives an alert, ZeroFox recommends immediate password changes for the affected account
- Enable 2-factor authentication for all of your organizational accounts to help mitigate phishing and credential stuffing attacks
Tags: data breach, education, eu/russia