Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2020-05-07 00:00:00
Affected organization: Ruhr University Bochum (RUB)
Affected country: Germany
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service,Data Attack,Internal Denial of Service
Motive: Undetermined
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) announces that it was forced to shut down large parts of its central IT infrastructure, after a ransomware attack that took place between May 6 and May 7.