People can now watch their in-boxes filling up

The university announced staff email was back yesterday, after being off-line for over a week.

Email and other systems were taken off-line the weekend before last as IT responded to what was first described as technical issues and then as a “security precaution.” The university was not commenting then on what had happened but observers suggest it was a cyber-attack using Ryuk file-encrypting ransomware (CMM May 20).

Management is still not commenting beyond stating “the cyberattack has been reported to the relevant authorities.”

There is no evidence that staff records were compromised (as occurred in the massive Uni California hack, (CMM April 7)) and Uni SAers are said to have not missed email much.