University of Illinois Chicago affected by ransomware attack on medical school

What happened

The university added that the incident was reported to law enforcement and the recovery effort was coordinated with agencies throughout the restoration process. A ransomware attack that affected the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine resulted in the theft of some information from its servers.

A spokesperson for the university told Recorded Future News the hackers were able to steal some information held on the college’s servers and an investigation is underway to determine whether “any personal, research or academic information was compromised.” “As a result of this ransomware event, some College of Medicine systems were temporarily unavailable,” the spokesperson said.

“However, all affected systems have since been restored. The university's main network was not affected, and there was no impact on patient care delivery at UI Health.” They plan to notify anyone who had information stolen during the attack.

UIC is the largest university in Chicago and serves more than 35,000 students across 16 different colleges. The College of Medicine has about 1,300 students. The group emerged at the end of July and has already claimed 49 attacks .