Western Sydney University student and staff data leaked, 7,500 notified
A data breach at Western Sydney University leaked the names, phone numbers and email addresses of students and staff. The university disclosed the breach and notified the 7,500 people affected.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Western Sydney University
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Leak of student and staff names, phone numbers and email addresses; 7,500 affected people notified
- Cause / method
- Data breach by a hacker
- Location
- Australia
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Timeline
- Western Sydney University disclosed a data breach and notified the 7,500 people affected.
- It emerged that the leaked information included students' and staff members' names, phone numbers and email addresses.
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