A website posted a claim this week that Hong Kong Baptist University got hacked, and now the university is checking its own systems to see if that's actually true. HKBU says it's reviewing its IT setup and its personal data security because of the post. No confirmation yet on what, if anything, got taken, or who's behind the claim.

Here's the bit that gets me: a university can teach you cryptography, run a whole computer science department, and still end up finding out about its own breach the same way you and I would. Someone posts it online first. If HKBU confirms this, watch for what they say about student and staff data specifically, because that's the number every parent and every lecturer on that campus actually cares about.