MUN president Neil Bose told CBC News on Wednesday that the hack on December 29 encrypted Grenfell’s servers’ data and prevented users from accessing it. The attack caused a week-long delay in classes.
An investigation by the university’s technology and external teams, in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security revealed that no data was compromised in the attack.
“The affected damage was no one could access anything, and none of the data was accessible to us,” Bose said Wednesday. “As soon as it was identified that it was a cyberattack and that data was unavailable … we then took direction from the cybersecurity experts to take us through how to respond, what we should do and so on and so forth. And it’s been pretty intense since then, actually.”
In an emailed statement, the university mentions that they cannot give details regarding the ransom, as this could impact the investigation.
Following this MUN officials did not comment regarding the issue for a few days. On Wednesday, Bose noted that the university did not want to compromise any information in the initial days of the investigation.
Before MUN agreed to an interview, Sheldon Handcock, an information technology expert located in Gander, spoke to CBC
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