University of Western Australia Forced Into Online Lockout
The University of Western Australia (UWA) has become the latest academic institution to face a significant cyber attack, forcing a campus-wide lockout and a mandatory password reset for all staff and students. Hundreds of staff and students have been locked out their accounts following a data breach that left their passwords and personal information compromised.
After detecting the breach, UWA locked staff and students out of the system and urged people to change their passwords.
The UWA confirmed details of the cyber-security incident that rocked their Perth campus at the weekend.
In a post on the UWA website, the university wrote that all staff and students were required to reset their passwords. “The University has detected unauthorised access to university password information. As a security measure, all staff and students have been locked out of UWA systems and are required to reset their passwords to gain access,” the message on the home page reads.
UWA chief information officer Fiona Bishop said a critical incident management team was activated to begin "counter-measures". The University has not disclosed how many students were impacted by the incident.
UWA was previously targeted in a cyber attack in 2022, which led to a 22-year-old Perth man being charged with one count of unlawfully using a computer and gaining or intending to gain a benefit after he allegedly hacked the university.
The previous breach led to names, home addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, emergency contact details, birth dates, student IDs and photos, course and unit details and grades, birth country, and citizenship statuses being accessed by threat actors.
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