Yet another University cyber-attacked

University of Hertfordshire, UK joins the new list of varsities that have faced a bout of cyber attack

source:https://www.herts.ac.uk/

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]

Official communication regarding the cyber attack

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