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.
Students, staff and faculty were notified earlier this year that a malicious actor had accessed sensitive data, prompting an upgrade to multi-factor authentication.
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…
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