Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-07-12 00:00:00
Affected organization: Deakin University
Affected country: Australia
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of End Host
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Deakin University discloses an incident in which a staff member's username and password was hacked and used by an unauthorized person to access information held by a third-party provider. The personally identifiable information of nearly 47,000 current and past students is compromised.