Major Australian university is HACKED with personal details of past and present students used to send malicious text messages
- Personal details of thousands of Deakin University students stolen by hacker
- Almost 10,000 scam texts sent out to students purporting to from university
- Text told students they owed fees on a delivery asked for credit card details
- Hacker used staff username and password to access the student database
A hacker has stolen personal details of nearly 47,000 past and present Deakin University students and used them to send out scam text messages.
Almost 10,000 students received the text, which purportedly came from the Melbourne university.
The text read: ‘Your parcel is available, you have to pay customs fees urgently on the link below.’
The scam text sent out to thousands of Deakin University students after their personal details were stolen by a hacker
If students clicked on the link they were asked to provide credit card details.
The hacker used a university staff member’s username and password on Sunday to access student data information held by a third-party provider that the university contracts to contact students.
The hacker stole the names, students numbers, mobile numbers, email…
