The Vice Society ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the November 2022 cyberattack that forced the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) to reconstruct its IT infrastructure, a process that's still ongoing.
Confidential details including child passport scans and SEN data is published online, the BBC finds.
Vice Society, a ransomware gang, has been involved in high-profile activity against schools this year.
Microsoft tied hackers with the Vice Society ransomware gang to several ransomware strains on Tuesday, noting that the group has been behind a wave of attacks on primary schools and colleges across the world.
Vice Society has a superpower that’s allowed it to quietly thrive: Mediocrity.
Hackers released data from Los Angeles Unified School District on Saturday, a day after Supt. Alberto Carvalho said he would not negotiate with or pay a ransom to the criminal syndicate.
Vice Society is a little-known double extortion group that exfiltrates its victims' data and threatens its victims to leak their information.
