The incident discovered Monday at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, seems to have exposed extensive student and employee personal data. The BYOD ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the breach. The university initially instructed users to power off university devices and disconnect from campus Wi-Fi. A ransomware group known as BYOD has taken responsibility for the attack, claiming to have stolen more than one million Social Security numbers. By Tuesday morning, the university announced that select systems, including campus WiFi, Okta, Outlook, Brightspace, Zoom, and YES, were safe to use again, though others like CampusPrint remained restricted.
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