Cyber 101: Why Hackers Are Going After Universities

Keith Wagstaff and Chiara Sottile, NBC News
Sun, 09/20/2015 - 4:34pm

With their stashes of student data and government-funded research, universities are some of America's juiciest targets for hackers.

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