Student Loans Company Hit by One Million Cyber-Attacks

guest · Feb 4, 2019

Student Loans Company Hit by One Million Cyber-Attacks
February 4, 2019
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/student-loans-company-hit-one/

The UK’s Student Loans Company (SLC) has been forced to repel nearly one million cyber-attacks over the course of the last financial year, highlighting the growing risk to organizations from hackers.

Think tank Parliament Street sent a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the non-profit government body, which provides loans and grants to students in the UK.
It revealed the organization was hit by 965,639 separate attacks in the financial year 2017/18. There was little further info on exactly what type of attacks these were, although they included SQLi attempts.

Some 127 attempted attacks were not blocked and therefore treated as full blown “incidents,” compared to three attempts in financial year 2015/16 and 95 in 2016/17. However, only one attack succeeded in breaching the SLC’s defenses.
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guest · Mar 17, 2020

2019
Student Loans Company hit by 5.5 million email attacks
March 17, 2020
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/7630/student_loans_company_hit_by_5_5_million_email_attacks

The Student Loans Company (SLC), the non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom that provides student loans, was hit by 5,445,273 email attacks in 2019 according to official figures.

The data, which was obtained via the Freedom of Information Act (FOI), provides an insight into the types of cyber attacks that Student Loans Company successfully defended itself against last year.
The SCL is reported to provide funding for 1.34 million students in higher education in 2018/19 up from 1.33 million students in 2017/18.

Out of the 5,445,273 email attacks recorded last year, the Student Loans Company’s detection software blocked 10,125 malware attempts and 19,188 phishing attacks.
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It was the spam protection operating system that quarantined the highest number of emails, with 5,415,960 different attack efforts.
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