The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) recently discovered a ransomware attack that limited access to some systems at its College of Medicine.
A spokesperson for the university told Recorded Future News the hackers were able to steal some information held on the college’s servers and an investigation is underway to determine whether “any personal, research or academic information was compromised.”
“As a result of this ransomware event, some College of Medicine systems were temporarily unavailable,” the spokesperson said. “However, all affected systems have since been restored. The university’s main network was not affected, and there was no impact on patient care delivery at UI Health.”
The university added that the incident was reported to law enforcement and the recovery effort was coordinated with agencies throughout the restoration process. They plan to notify anyone who had information stolen during the attack.
UIC is the largest university in Chicago and serves more than 35,000 students across 16 different colleges. The College of Medicine has about 1,300 students.
The attack was claimed last week by a ransomware gang known as Booba, which claimed to have stolen 344 gigabytes of data. The group emerged at the end of July and has already claimed 49 attacks.
SentinelOne’s Brett Williams said the group appears to be a rebrand of the Frag ransomware based on the leak site’s style and negotiation flow. Encrypted files are renamed with the .booba extension and there appears to be variants for Linux as well as Windows.
The group has targeted several companies and small county governments, including Merrimack County, New Hampshire.
The county confirmed to local news outlets and DysruptionHub that it dealt with a cyberattack several weeks ago but has since recovered.
The outlet Patch reported that county dispatchers could not access criminal data from the state’s software to share with officers due to the attack.
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