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The hacker was paid after the personal information of NUI Galway alumni

 


NUI Galway student personal information was compromised in a recent online attack targeting a company affiliated with the university fundraiser.

In an email Wednesday, the Galway University Foundation notified individuals on its mailing list their data was the subject of an online attack. Credit card and bank account details were not compromised.

Blackbaud Inc., a company the foundation uses to manage its contact database, was the target of an innkeeper revenge. This is where cybercriminals shut down a particular computer system or company and demand money to get it back to normal.

In an email, seen by The Irish Times, the university foundation said it had immediately launched our investigation, and had reported the matter to the Data Protection Commissioner. The hack took place in May.

University foundations are often created units to raise funds from donors and alumni.

Dnal Cahalane, the finance director of the Galway University foundation, told them in his mailing list and alumni network a limited amount of their personal information may have been hacked.

At this time, we understand that Blackbaud detected and stopped a reward attack. The incident has affected several universities and other non-profit Blackbaud clients internationally, the email said.

The company stopped the cyber criminal from shutting down his system and shutting the hacker out.

However, before it was blocked, cybercrime removed a copy of a backup file containing personal information, including a subset of NUI Galway data, said Mr. Cahalane.

Cybercrime does not have access to credit card information or bank account details and student data was not hacked, the email said.

Blackbaud has determined that the removed file may have names; contact information including telephone numbers, email addresses and mailing addresses; and a history of our alumni and supporters relations with our organization to that point, said Mr. Cahalane.

Blackbaud had paid the cyber criminal to destroy the copy of the stolen data in the hack, he said.

NUI Galway was not a party to the decision to make this payment and only became aware of this payment after it had occurred, he said.

Based on the nature of the incident, their investigation, and a third-party investigation (including law enforcement), Blackbaud does not believe any data went beyond cybercrime, was or will be misused, or disseminated or put publicly available and are continuing to monitor this, he said.

As a result of the retaliation, the university would review its relationship with third-party service provider Blackbaud, he said.

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