Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-05-15 00:00:00
Affected organization: Pennsylvania State University
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Penn State's College of Engineering is disconnected from the Internet after two serious computer intrusions that exposed personal information for at least 18,000 people and possible other sensitive data. The group responsible for one of the attacks appears to be based in China.