Expensive and Painful Cyber Attacks
Right now it is Brown University in the past, it has been small towns in RI and hospital groups.
The cyberattack has forced the school to shut some systems down in an event that Brown is calling an “utmost priority.”
Jack Wrenn, a fifth-year doctoral candidate, said that official information was still “frustratingly scant” as of Wednesday night.
Wrenn provided a timeline as to what he understood transpired, and when the university community was notified.
“Systems appear to have gone down at 7:19 a.m. [on Tuesday],” said Wrenn. “At 7:24 a.m., Computing & Information Services (CIS) announced that they were experiencing a major outage of services running in the Brown datacenter.