Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-05-03 00:00:00
Affected organization: Tufts University
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Protest
Actor: TuftsLeaks
Actor type: Undetermined
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: A group calling itself TuftsLeaks publishes documents online that contain sensitive financial information from Tufts. The leak includes department budgets, the salaries of thousands of staff and faculty and the ID numbers of student employees with salaries listed.