Ongoing Vanderbilt Hack Focused on Cloud Storage

Vanderbilt University Photo: Eric England An expansive network hack discovered at Vanderbilt University on Monday morning has infiltrated certain university cloud storage systems, such as Microsoft OneDrive and Box, leaving student and faculty research and coursework in jeopardy. The situation could take “multiple weeks” to resolve, according to the university. Since sending a campus-wide lockdown message on Monday, university IT has approved campus Wi-Fi, Zoom, email and printing, as well as cloud-based course management tool Brightspace, as safe to use according to its most comprehensive update shared Tuesday.“VUIT continues to respond with a focus on containment and determining what data, if any, may have been accessed,” reads an official university update published Tuesday at 6 p.m. “We are making progress with containment measures and additional efforts to safeguard Vanderbilt systems. We anticipate it may take multiple weeks to fully restore normal operations across all systems.

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