University of Phoenix Sued Over Oracle Hub-and-Spoke Data Breach

Two former University of Phoenix students sued the private, for-profit school for negligence after it announced that a vulnerability in its Oracle E-Business Suite software led to a data breach.

Former students Mari Soliz and Denise Rico’s proposed class action filed in the US District Court for the District of Arizona blamed the breach on a ransomware group that exploited a zero day vulnerability, the term for a previously unknown security flaw.

A number of current and former students, employees, faculty, and suppliers may have had their financial information, Social Security numbers, and birth dates compromised, according to the university’s ...