Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-01-16 00:00:00
Affected organization: Metropolitan 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: Minnesota-based Metropolitan State University notifies faculty, staff and students that an attacker may have breached its web server to access a database that contained their personal information. 22,000 users are at risk.