Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-06-02 00:00:00
Affected organization: Arkansas State University
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: At Arkansas State University (A-State), full and partial Social Security numbers are compromised for about 50,000 early childhood practitioners after unauthorized access is gained to databases related to the Traveling Arkansas Professional Pathways (TAPP).