A community college in North Carolina already limited by the pandemic’s remote-learning conditions is being further challenged after a ransomware attack last week disabled systems needed for online learning and forced its employees off campus. Central Piedmont Community College, an institution with about 50,000 students in Charlotte, North Carolina, tweeted on Tuesday that Kandi Deitemeyer, the college’s president, had posted an update to the college’s website about the “incredibly difficult time” students were facing, particularly after the ransomware attack discovered last Wednesday. “The malicious and unwarranted cyberattack against us on February 10, feels like a punch to the chest: It knocked us back some, but we are not out,” Deitemeyer wrote. Based on its “exhaustive, digital forensics investigation” in conjunction with the FBI and other federal and state agencies, the college reports there’s “no evidence” that any student or employee personal information was compromised in the ransomware attack. But the […]
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