gene@shaw.ca
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 10:26:47 -0700
Danny Palmer, ZDNet, 23 Jul 2019
University says it has fallen victim to a "a sophisticated and malicious phishing attack" -- and students are being warned to look out for suspicious emails. https://www.zdnet.com/article/phishing-attack-students-personal-information-stolen-in-university-data-breach/
Hackers have stolen personal data of prospective and current students at
Lancaster University after gaining access to databases that contained
personal information -- with victims now the targets of additional
cyberattacks.
Names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses have been
compromised by cyberattackers who gained unauthorised entry to undergraduate
students' application records for 2019 and 2020. The university has over
13,000 students, but there's currently no figure on the number of people who
have been caught up in the attack.