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University of Tasmania

1 Sep 2020 · TAS · Education
Data Breach CRITICAL ✓ Verified

What happened

Systemic technical bungle at UTAS led to an acute campus-wide data exposure event. Internal system access tokens and student file paths were inadvertently indexed openly, making confidential student records briefly visible across public web networks.

Incident details

Organisation
University of Tasmania
Date
1 Sep 2020
Attack type
Data Breach
Severity
CRITICAL
Sector
Education
State
TAS
Records affected
Unknown
Threat actor
Human Error

Source

ia.acs.org.au ↗
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