Category: Education and Training
Incident: Australian National University investigating alleged cyber attack | Cyberdaily.au
Incident – University Ransomware Attack, 16 February 2025: Australian National University investigating alleged cyber attack by FSociety ransomware group. No ransom amount was given; however, society is threatening to publish the data within seven days.
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Update AU Incident: The University of Notre Dame Australia confirms cyber incident | Cyberdaily.au
Updated AU Incident – Education Cyber Attack, 04 February 2025: The University of Notre Dame Australia in Western Australia confirms cyber incident. Claims are that 62.3 Gb of data was exfiltrated. Containing employee and student contact data, medical documents, confidential agreements and licenses. Problems with enrolling and accessing class timetables, weeks after a cyber attack
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Incident: Waverley Christian College confirms cyber incident after ransomware gang claims attack | Cyberdaily.au
Australian Education Ransomware Attack, 18 December 2024: Victoria – Waverley Christian College confirms cyber incident after Fog ransomware gang claims attack. Fog ransomware operation claims to have stolen five gigabytes of data including financial and insurance documents, internal correspondence, and other sensitive information.
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Incident: KillSec ransomware claims breach on Australian educational support platform | Cyberdaily.au
Australian Education Ransomware Attack, 10 December 2024: KillSec ransomware claims breach on Australian educational support platform Thanks For The Help (TFTH). The company’s website has been flagged by the Australian government’s Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency for providing essay writing services.
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Incident: Year 11 students expelled for hacking schools IT systems for years undetected | PerthNow
Australian Education Access Breach, 24 June 2024: Perth, Western Australia – Year 11 students expelled for hacking schools IT systems for years undetected. Students used the teacher’s details to access their grades and other students’ personal information.
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Incident: Victoria’s largest childcare org discloses data breach, ID document scans stolen | cyberdaily.au
Australian Childcare Privacy Breach, 31 May 2024: Victoria’s largest childcare org Guardian Childcare, discloses data breach, it was targeted in cyberattack. In the data breach, attackers stole identification documents, potentially impacting thousands of families.
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Incident: 300GB allegedly stolen from Australian immigration consultancy – cyberdaily.au
Australian Ransomware Attack, 08 April 2024: Australia-based global immigration and education consultancy firm Aussizz Group has been listed on the dark web leak site. 300GB allegedly stolen by DragonForce ransomware gang.
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Incident: University of Wollongong discloses data breach | iTnews
Australian University Data Breach, 11 December 2023: University of Wollongong discloses data breach. The breach may have affected both staff and students.
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Incident: University of Sydney caught up in third-party data breach | iTNews
Australian University Third-Party Data Breach, 1 September 2023: The University of Sydney has disclosed a data breach potentially affecting international students. The data breach involved a third-party provider, still undisclosed.
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Incident: Australian vocational and trades education centre hit by Lockbit | iTWire
Australian Education Ransomware Attack, 19 July 2023: Australian Academy of Vocational Education and Trades trading as Academia, has been hit by the Windows ransomware group Lockbit 3.0. The attackers have given the organisation a deadline of 24 July to get in touch and presumably negotiate a ransom payment.
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Incident: Data of thousands of TAFE SA students stolen in breach spanning over five years | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Education Data Breach, 4 April 2023. Data of thousands of TAFE SA students stolen in breach spanning over five years. SA Police “found” USB containing credentials such as driver’s licences and passports for enrolments prior to 2021 across all campuses.
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Incident: Hundreds of parents hit by credit card hack at Lilydale school | The Age
Australian Education Data Breach, 31 January 2023: Hundreds of parents hit by credit card hack at Melbourne’s Mount Lilydale Mercy catholic school. 400 parents are being warned their credit card information may have been stolen over the school holidays.
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Incident: Queensland University of Technology shuts IT systems after being hit by ransomware attack | ABC News Australia
Australian University Ransomware Attack, 22 December 2022: Queensland University of Technology shuts IT systems after being hit by ransomware attack. 11,405 individuals had their data breached in a December cyber attack.
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Incident: Student details, photos exposed in University of WA data breach | iTnews
Australian University Privacy Incident August 2022: Student details, photos exposed in University of Western Australia data breach. The privacy breach that may have compromised the information of hundreds of current and past student.
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Incident: Deakin University reveals breach of 47,000 students’ details | iTnews
Australian Cyber Attack July 2022: Deakin University reveals privacy breach of 47,000 students’ details. Subset targeted with smish sent via officially-used SMS channel
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Incident: NSW Education department hit by cyber attack | iTnews
Australian Education Cyber Attack July 2021: NSW Education department hit by cyber attack just days before school term resumes. The attack had forced it to deactivate “a number of internal systems as a precaution.
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Incident: Kununurra Department of Education worker charged with illegally accessing confidential information | The West Australian
Australian Unauthorised Access Incident June 2021: Western Australia – Kimberley – Kununurra Department of Education worker charged with illegally accessing confidential information. Charged after his office was raided by WA police last month
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Incident: UniSA locks down devices and Citrix solution after cyber attack | Arnet
Australian University Incident May 2021. UniSA locks down devices and Citrix solution after cyber attack. A number of PCs and laptops have been disabled, while Citrix VA is now unavailable.
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Incident: Swinburne University data breach exposes details of 5000 staff, students | iTnews
Australian University Data Breach April 2021: Melbourne’s Swinburne University data breach exposes details of 5000 staff, students. Swinburne says staff, student data has been leaking since 2013.
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Incident: Melbourne’s RMIT University suspends classes after suffering IT outage | ABC News (Australia)
Australian Education Outage February 2021: Melbourne’s RMIT University suspends classes after suffering IT outage. Reportedly the significant cyber attack was caused by a phishing scam.
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