A computer learning camp ‘iD Tech Camps’ allegedly got hacked

An unknown threat actor has published a post in an underground hacking forum, claiming to have hacked into the official website of a summer computer camp, iD Tech Camps (www.idtech[.]com), and stolen hundreds of thousands of records from the organisation.

Our threat monitoring team in iZOOlogic found this discovery during routine research, although limited information is currently available about this issue. Based on the threat actor’s post, the attack happened in the first few days of January this year.

The hackers allegedly obtained exactly 992,142 records from the systems of iD Tech Camps, which contained sensitive data that could be potentially used for further attacks against impacted individuals. Some stolen data from the alleged website hacking incident are full names, dates of birth, email IDs, and passwords stored in plaintext.

 

The cyberattack on iD Tech Camps is still under close observation.

 

While this discovery has yet to be confirmed from the end of iD Tech Camps, our iZOOlogic threat monitoring team will continue to investigate and share updates as they arise.

iD Tech Camps is a Campbell, California-based summer computer camp providing computer technology training to children between 7 and 19 years old. There currently are over 150 colleges and universities in the US partnered with the organisation to cater to young students’ computer technology learning.

The organisation also boasts of expanding its services to several international locations, including Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and London.

With the large network of branches, employees, and customers within the summer computer camp, the alleged cyberattack on its website could potentially impact the safety of all involved individuals. Thus, our security experts advise the affected organisation to review the incident and promptly warn people of potential cybersecurity threats surrounding them.

Should this report be confirmed, the affected organisation must immediately implement appropriate security measures to contain the incident.