ANU data breach: How hackers got inside Australia's top university

Sherryn Groch
Updated October 28 2019 - 9:32pm, first published October 2 2019 - 4:15pm

It's been compared to Ocean's Eleven - a cyber attack on Australia's top university, methodically planned and then adapted on the fly by an "A team" of hackers who cracked into the personal records of 200,000 students and staff and walked away leaving virtually no trace.

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Sherryn Groch

Sherryn Groch

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Sherryn is a journalist at The Canberra Times, with a special interest in education and social affairs.

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