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Napa Valley College has been battling ransomware for two weeks
Napa Valley College, a community college in Northern California, has been struggling with a ransomware attack for more than two weeks.
Ransomware forces Washington community college offline
Faculty at Centralia College, near Seattle, said they first detected the ransomware attack after noticing their files "looked weird."
UMass Lowell cancels classes due to possible cyberattack
The school has lost several days of classes due to a cyber incident that's still under investigation.
Brown U. cuts off data center after detecting 'cybersecurity threat'
The institution's CIO asked all on-campus faculty and staff to stop using Windows-based computers.
Ransomware attack forces North Carolina college to cancel classes
Central Piedmont Community College, an institution with 50,000 students in Charlotte, North Carolina, has canceled classes after a cyberattack disabled key systems used for remote learning.
CSU San Marcos was hacked in October
Students, staff and faculty were notified earlier this year that a malicious actor had accessed sensitive data, prompting an upgrade to multi-factor authentication.
Blackbaud mum on which universities had Social Security data stolen
The company revised its story last week, but it's still not saying which universities were affected by the cyberattack discovered last May.
University of Utah pays ransomware attackers $457K
Administrators said they were able to restore all encrypted data from backups, but they decided to pay the ransom to prevent student and teacher information from being leaked onto the internet.
Malware skimmed credit card numbers from Michigan State's online shop
Code embedded in an official university website selling Spartan-branded sweatshirts and mugs compromised financial information of about 2,600 customers.
