Medical University of Innsbruck under Vice Society ransomware attack

The Vice Society ransomware group has claimed responsibility for last week's hacker attack against the Medical University of Innsbruck, which caused IT service disruption and the data breach.

The research university has 3,400 students and 2,200 employees and offers extensive medical care services, including surgeries.

The Austrian university discovered an IT outage on June 20, restricting access to online servers and computer networks.

On June 21, the university's IT team proceeded to reset all 3,400 students' and 2,200 employees' account passwords and called everyone to go through a manual process of personally collecting their new credentials.

In the days that followed, the university gradually restored its online services and returned operations to its main site, which had previously been initially taken offline.

On June 26, Vice Society added the Medical University of Innsbruck to its data leak site, leaking an extensive list of documents allegedly stolen during last week's hacker attack.

Typically, Vice Society uses a countdown timer to extort a newly announced victim before publishing files, so there's no extortion taking place now.

Yesterday, Iranian major steel firm reported it was forced to halt production after being hit by a hacker attack.