Deakin University

The personal information of 46,980 Deakin University students was stolen in a data breach incident.

An attacker used a staff member's username and password to access student information via one of Deakin's third-party providers, who then used 9,997 Deakin students' information in an SMS phishing campaign, with victims prompted to make payment for a fraudulent postal delivery.

Deakin sincerely apologized to those impacted and assured victims of conducting a thorough investigation into the attack.

Source: https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2022/deakin-university-data-breach-impacts-47-000-students.html

"id": "DEA3929722",
"linkid": "deakin-university",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "07/2022",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "5",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the organization's existence"