Our Lady of the Lake University is one of the largest employers on the West Side and could serve as a meeting place to spur investment for this part of our community.that gave hackers access to personal data on its computer network but declined to say how many individuals were affected or provide other details of its response.
The ransomware group AvosLocker claims it hacked into the San Antonio university's network, according to Boerne-based IT consulting firm BetterCyber and Breachsense, a data breach monitoring platform.Our Lady of the Lake hit by cyberattack; victims say hackers got Social Security and other data “To date, we are not aware of any reports of identity fraud or improper use of any information as a direct result of this incident,” it said in the notification.Fall semester enrollment at the university was about 2,300 students and it employs about 450 people.“This notice is strange,” said an individual who applied to the university in 2016 but never attended. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of concerns their information has been posted online or will be.
Some of the victims in San Antonio said they had learned about the breach at Our Lady of the Lake through alerts from credit card companies and credit rating agencies that their personal information had been compromised and were able to connect it to an attack on the university’s network.