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Australian Catholic University Phished with Staff Accounts and Systems Compromised

Written by Cybersecurity | Jun 21, 2019 2:24:02 PM

2019-06-17

ZDNet: Australian Catholic University (ACU) has confessed that a data breach occurred on its systems as a result of a phishing attack. ACU said it discovered the breach on 22 May but did not say when the attack happened. "The data breach originated from a phishing attack: An email pretending to be from ACU tricking users into clicking on a link or opening an attachment and then entering credentials into a fake ACU login page," Acting Vice-Chancellor Dr Stephen Weller said in a blog post on Monday...

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