The University of Utah admitted having paid a $457,059 ransom after the ransomware attack that took place on July 19, 2020, that infected systems on the network of the university’s College of Social and Behavioral Science [CSBS]). The university did not reveal the ransomware family involved in the attack.
The University was able to recover the operations from the backups, but decided to pay the ransom to avoid having ransomware operators leak student information online.
