Illinois Community College Addressing Cybersecurity Breach
Heartland Community College is working with outside consultants to address a security breach in its computer systems. As of now all of the college’s online operations including classes are shut down. The college became aware of the breach on Monday and immediately shut down all of the university online services in efforts to investigate and maintain the security breach. The College is unaware if any student or personal data have been compromised. Reports mentioned the spike of phishing emails since the pandemic. Since the shutdown the college informed students via social media that their instructors would be in touch to reschedule missed classes, tests and assignments. Heartland Community College is working to resume normal online operations as quickly as possible, but it did not provide a timeline. The college has not shared any more information on the nature of the cyberattack.
https://www.wglt.org/post/breach-disrupts-heartland-community-colleges-computer-systems#stream/0
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