Ladies’ College is targeted in a ransomware attack

Computer systems at The Ladies’ College were hacked in a ransomware attack as the school was exposed for using a weak password and poor systems.
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But the school immediately reported itself to the Office of the Data Protection Authority for a data breach immediately, cooperated with its investigation and has been ordered to update systems to improve its security, which it has completed.

The authority found that the college had failed to secure remote access to its computers, and had used a weak password – without activating multi-factor authentication – for an administrator account, and was vulnerable to a ‘brute force attack’.

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