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	"plain_text": "Update on IT Security Incident at UCSF | UC San Francisco\r\nBy University of California San Francisco\r\nPublished: 2020-06-27 · Archived: 2026-04-05 22:56:59 UTC\r\nCampus News\r\nJune 26, 2020\r\nAs we disclosed on June 3, UCSF IT staff detected a security incident that occurred in a limited part of the UCSF\r\nSchool of Medicine’s IT environment on June 1.\r\nWe quarantined several IT systems within the School of Medicine as a safety measure, and we successfully\r\nisolated the incident from the core UCSF network. Importantly, this incident did not affect our patient care\r\ndelivery operations, overall campus network, or COVID-19 work.\r\nWhile we stopped the attack as it was occurring, the actors launched malware that encrypted a limited number of\r\nservers within the School of Medicine, making them temporarily inaccessible. Since that time, we have been\r\nworking with a leading cyber-security consultant and other outside experts to investigate the incident and\r\nreinforce our IT systems’ defenses. We expect to fully restore the affected servers soon.\r\nOur investigation is ongoing but, at this time, we believe that the malware encrypted our servers opportunistically,\r\nwith no particular area being targeted. The attackers obtained some data as proof of their action, to use in their\r\ndemand for a ransom payment. We are continuing our investigation, but we do not currently believe patient\r\nmedical records were exposed. As additional facts become known, we will provide further updates.\r\nThe data that was encrypted is important to some of the academic work we pursue as a university serving the\r\npublic good. We therefore made the difficult decision to pay some portion of the ransom, approximately $1.14\r\nmillion, to the individuals behind the malware attack in exchange for a tool to unlock the encrypted data and the\r\nreturn of the data they obtained.\r\nThis incident reflects the growing use of malware by cyber-criminals around the world seeking monetary gain,\r\nincluding several recent attacks on institutions of higher education. We continue to cooperate with law\r\nenforcement, and we appreciate everyone’s understanding that we are limited in what we can share while we\r\ncontinue with our investigation.\r\nSource: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417911/update-it-security-incident-ucsf\r\nhttps://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417911/update-it-security-incident-ucsf\r\nPage 1 of 1",
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