Cybersecurity incident — 2019-10-10 00:00:00
Affected organization: Boston University
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

Over 1,000 Boston University students are forced to change their account passwords after the servers are flooded with spam emails from student accounts. The spam is believed to be a result of a 2018 breach of the educational site Chegg.