Elliott Greene reports:
Hundreds of thousands of University of St. Thomas files have appeared on the dark web after a summer cyberattack that shut down campus systems and key services. Students, faculty, and alumni say they’ve received little information as experts and law enforcement work to find out what data was stolen, as reported by Houston Chronicle.
According to the Houston Chronicle, investigators found at least 630,000 UST files posted online following the intrusion, which hit roughly 12 days after the university completed an IT-provider transition on July 31. Emails and documents reviewed by the Chronicle show then-CIO Reginald Brumfield raised alarms months earlier—writing that “OculusIT operates very loosely”—and flagged that endpoint protection such as CrowdStrike had not been installed on newly provisioned servers. Public records cited in the reporting also indicate UST paid about $3.8 million to Ellucian between July 2023 and June 2024 for IT services and support surrounding the transition.
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