Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2019-06-04 00:00:00
Affected organization: Australian National University
Affected country: Australia
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Up to 200,000 students and staff of the Australian National University have personal data stolen in a "sophisticated" cyber attack. The attackers stole data stretching back 19 years. The breach occurred in late 2018 and was detected two weeks ago.