Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-06-03 00:00:00
Affected organization: North Carolina State University
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: An external attacker uses a phishing scam to break into a North Carolina State University email account containing personally identifiable information of 38,000 individuals.