Data Breach: University of York Staff and Student Records Stolen in Third-Party Cloud Service Provider Ransomware Attack

Blackbaud fell victim to a ransomware attack earlier in May, when the attackers infiltrated their systems and were able to remove a copy of a subset of data from a number of their clients, including the University of York. The data accessed by the cybercriminals included personal information such as name, title, gender, date of birth, student number, phone, email address, LinkedIn profile URL. The company also confirmed that no encrypted data such as account details or passwords were accessed during the attack.”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/data-breach-university-of-york-staff-and-student-records-stolen-in-third-party-cloud-service-provider-ransomware-attack/