BYOD’s leak site says Vanderbilt’s databases are locked and that it has the university’s estate and research data, including more than 1 million Social Security numbers, names, email addresses, phone numbers and student and employee records [1]. Its ransom note claims control of the domain controller and the backups, and threatens to release data if the university does not negotiate [1]. Vanderbilt has not confirmed BYOD’s involvement or any of these claims [1].BleepingComputer saw a photo of an allegedly infected Vanderbilt computer showing a ransom note named README_BYOD_31.txt that links to BYOD’s leak site, and a video of devices playing audio saying the network had been compromised by “BYOD” [1]. Employees told the Nashville Banner that files on the university’s Box cloud storage were deleted on Monday morning and that one computer’s files were renamed with a .byod extension after a ransomware warning appeared [2].
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