{"id":6754,"date":"2018-06-07T06:04:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T22:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/major-pageup-data-breach-heres-students-need-know\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:08:37","slug":"major-pageup-data-breach-heres-students-need-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/major-pageup-data-breach-heres-students-need-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Major PageUp data breach. Here\u2019s what students need to know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PageUp, a recruitment service provider to major Australian organisations has indicated that personal details of Australians may have been compromised in a recent data breach.<\/p>\n<p>PageUp released a full statement on their website about the breach, which can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pageuppeople.com\/unauthorised-activity-on-it-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note, Curtin University does not use PageUp services and our data is unaffected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How will this affect you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve recently applied for a position or been involved with the recruitment processes with an organisation using PageUp\u2019s services, there\u2019s a possibility that your personal information may have been compromised.<\/p>\n<p>A list of known companies that use PageUp\u2019s services can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itnews.com.au\/news\/telstra-coles-auspost-and-more-pull-pageup-powered-job-sites-492910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have provided personal information to an organisation using PageUp\u2019s services, we\u00a0recommend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monitoring PageUp\u2019s website for updates into the data breach.<\/li>\n<li>Contacting PageUp at security-enquiries@pageuppeople.com if you believe you have provided information to an affected organisation using PageUp\u2019s services.<\/li>\n<li>Change the password to any organisations\u2019 job site, which has used PageUp\u2019s services.<\/li>\n<li>Change the password to any email account associated with an organisation using PageUp\u2019s services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further information on what you can do is summarised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-06-06\/what-to-do-job-seeker-privacy-breach\/9842474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recruitment services provider PageUp is investigating a data breach into their recruitment system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-6754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 16:34:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}