Data has been stolen from a number of UK institution Lancaster University's students and undergraduate applicants after a phishing attack, which the university says it is investigating. Hackers accessed contact details of Friday and 2020 applicants and some were sent fraudulent invoices. The university said it was contacting a “very small number” of existing students whose records and ID documents were also accessed. It said it had launched an incident team as soon as it knew of the attack and that the authorities had been informed.
Data has been stolen from a number of UK institution Lancaster University's students and undergraduate applicants after a phishing attack, which the university says it is investigating. Hackers accessed contact details of 2019 and 2020 applicants and some were sent fraudulent invoices. The university said it was contacting a “very small number” of existing students whose records and ID documents were also accessed. It said it had launched an incident team as soon as it knew of the attack and that the authorities had been informed.