Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2014-04-22 00:00:00
Affected organization: Iowa 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: Information technology staff at Iowa State University discovers a breach affecting five departmental servers on campus potentially compromising Social Security numbers of 29,780 students enrolled at Iowa State between 1995 and 2012.