The breach reportedly involves "lists of names, contact details and positions" of National Tertiary Education Union members at five universities - Sydney, Western Sydney, Adelaide, Flinders and South Australia - supposedly "collated with the intention of contacting each person to solicit funds to support a campaign for the upcoming West Australian Senate election".
The Australian indicates that
The lists were made public yesterday after a computer expert who goes by the pseudonym Yeow Wan emailed the union to complain about how easy the lists were to find on a file conversion site called docupub.com.
The same person had contacted the union in August after he had found similar lists on Google Docs that appeared to contain answers to questions in relation to upcoming university strike action.As yet there's no statement on the NTEU site
