Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-04-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance)
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Data relating to 64,000 current and former examiners stored on some of AQA's online systems are stolen by attackers, including examiners' name, address, personal phone numbers, and passwords.