Western Sydney University graduates sent ‘fraudulent’ emails claiming degrees were ‘revoked’ | Sydney

There are and old students at Western Sydney University (WSU), including a warning that some students’ degrees were canceled, they received “fraudulent” mails.

This morning, WSU confirmed that fraudulent e -mails have been sent to students and graduates in the last 24 hours and some of them were “incorrectly excluded from the university or their qualities have been canceled”.

However, he said that the e -mails were not legitimate and were not given by the university.

“We are lying to inform people that E -mail is fraudulent and informs the NSW police,” a WSU spokesman said. “Since this is part of an ongoing police investigation, we cannot make any more comments right now. We sincerely apologize for concerns that may cause.”

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WSU did not respond to the request for additional information about how many people might have received. NSW police approached for a comment.

According to the screenshots published on social media, one of the e -mails had a gloomy warning for buyers:

“After a comprehensive examination, you are cooking you from informing you that a permanent exclusion decision was made from any work at Western Sydney University, or he says. “As a result, the existing certificates or prizes given to you before are canceled on this occasion.”

E -Posta is discussed separately to the recipient called in the message.

Another Long E -Posta referred to an former WSU student who was arrested in June and allegedly using a hack to secure a discounted parking space on the campus and to change its grades.

“So the question continues: WSU, has it done something to secure its systems since then?”

WSU did not answer questions about whether E -Posts were linked to past cyber security events.

WSU He said it in April He gave information to his community about “unauthorized access” to his systems that affect approximately 10,000 people, especially his current and former students. The university said that it was a victim of an targeted attack at the beginning of the year and that pirates to access student data.