Vice Society ransomware gang claims attack on one of Germany’s largest universities

The Vice Society ransomware group said it was responsible for a November attack against one of Germany’s largest universities.

The University of Duisburg-Essen in the country’s North Rhine-Westphalia region was forced to shut down its entire IT infrastructure and disconnect it from the network following the incident. The university has 12 departments and about 43,000 students.

Hackers managed to obtain some of the university’s data and put it on the dark web, according to a statement released by the university …

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