Universidad del Cauca Suffers Data Breach Exposing PII

An alleged data breach has exposed an administrative database dump affecting Universidad del Cauca, reportedly extracted from the Ministry of National Education’s portal targeting the SNIES/HECAA system and containing 3,754 records. The leak includes structured CSV files with student, alumni, university leadership, and user account data—exposing personal identifiers, contact details, academic records, and administrative access logs. #UNICAUCA #SNIES

Keypoints

An alleged breach compromised Universidad del Cauca data taken from the Ministry of National Education SNIES/HECAA portal.
The incident affects 3,754 real-time records.
Data is organized into CSV files: Estudiantes.csv, Graduados.csv, Directivos de universidad.csv, and usuarios.csv.
Exposed personal data includes full names, national ID types and numbers, dates of birth, DANE birthplace/residency codes, emails, phones, and home addresses.
Academic and administrative details leaked include program codes, enrollment and graduation status, Saber 11 scores, ethnic/disability identifiers, and access logs.