Australia National University (ANU) has disclosed a data breach that affected some information of its community members dating back 19 years.
On 4 June, ANU Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt revealed that the school had discovered a data breach in May. An analysis of the event uncovered that someone had accessed the school’s systems illegally back in 2018. This effort also provided crucial information about the nature of the security incident and what data it had likely exposed.
As Schmidt explained in his statement: