Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2017-06-15 00:00:00
Affected organization: University College London
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: University College London is hit by a "major" ransomware attack which brings down its shared drives and student management system. The attack also leads to a number of hospital trusts suspending their email servers as a precautionary measure, in an attempt to prevent the repetition of last month's damaging WannaCry epidemic.