Yet another University cyber-attacked
University of Hertfordshire, UK joins the new list of varsities that have faced a bout of cyber attack
Apr 27, 2021
Background
On April 2021, University of Hertfordshire reported a disruption in their online activities, particularly services like online classrooms, zoom & Team meetings, Wi-Fi , email services and VPNs. [1]
What is compromised ?
It wasn’t confirmed by the University that any of the student data was been compromised.
What happened afterwards ?
- Univ. of Hertfordshire released an official communication regrding the cyber attack available here [1 ]
Links
[1] “ Important information — cyber attack”
https://www.herts.ac.uk/study/service-update
[2] University of Swinburne data breach
https://poplaski.medium.com/data-breach-swinburne-university-3d4b5abc5616
