Earlier this month, The Nation reported that Thailand’s National Institute of Educational Testing Service (“NIETS”) web site had been downed by denial of service attacks and had been offline between Wednesday through Friday. The Nation subsequently reported that NIETS learned that information about some 1,000 students were stolen by hackers in the attack.
Deputy Education Minister Chaiwuti Bannawat said Saturday that the initial IT probe found that the hackers accessed the NIETS system via student applicants’ information to launch the attacks and so far some 1,000 students were found to have their information stolen.