Osaka – Osaka Metropolitan University has said that data on at least 130,000 current and former students and teachers at the institution may have been exposed to unauthorized access due to a system failure caused by a cyberattack.
“It is regrettable that we could not prevent the incident,” said Hiroyuki Sakuragi, president of the university in Osaka Prefecture, at a news conference held Monday to announce the possible data breach. “We will deal with the situation so that the university can fulfill its mission.”
About 500 servers related to the university’s information system stopped operating after a suspected ransomware attack on Friday, according to the school.
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