Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-11-01 00:00:00
Affected organization: University of Fraser Valley (UFV)
Affected country: Canada
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: An unknown attacker (or groups of attackers) breaches the network of University of Fraser Valley (UFV) and threatens to dump student information unless university top brass pay 30,000 CAD (23,000 USD).