Cybersecurity incident — 2018-07-06 00:00:00
Affected organization: Australian National University
Affected country: Australia
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Industrial-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

China-based hackers have successfully infiltrated the IT systems at the Australian National University, potentially compromising the home of Australia's leading national security college and key defence research projects.