Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-08-30 00:00:00
Affected organization: Greenville Technical College
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Data Attack,Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Avaddon
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Greenville Technical College claims to have recovered from a ransomware attack and that no personal data was affected. However, the hackers claim that they stole 600 GB of sensitive data.