2012 PeopleSoft making appearance in press again, now stealing bank accounts

2012 was the year of another well-known attack on a business application, and again it was a PeopleSoft system. A student at the University of Nebraska accessed a database by compromising university’s PeopleSoft system. This led to the leakage of not only Social Security numbers and other sensitive data on about 654,000 students and employees but also bank account details of some 21,000 people were exposed. The compromised database also included the information on alumni that dated back to the spring of 1985. Later that year, the University of Nebraska created a webpage containing the information on the incident. The data from Chadron State, Peru State, and Wayne State colleges was also said to be exposed as the Nebraska college system started using NeSIS, shared student information system, in 2009. The hacker was finally found and turned out to be a former UNL student. He pleaded guilty to one count of intentionally damaging a protected computer. The damage was estimated at $5,000. 

Another incident took place a year later and it became the third major attack on the PeopleSoft system that took place in March 2013. Salem State University in Massachusetts notified 25,000 students and employees about the probable compromise of their Social Security Numbers.