Email Security & Protection
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime
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Incident & Breach Response
University Say the Cause Was a Hacked Staff Member’s Account
A data breach at one of Australia’s largest universities means the personally identifiable information of nearly 47,000 current and past students now resides in the hands of an unknown threat actor.
Officials at Deakin University in the state of Victoria say they traced the incident’s origin to the hacked account of a staff member. The stolen data includes student names, IDs, mobile phone numbers and university email addresses.
Nearly 10,000 students also received fraudulent text messages with a link that…
