The University of Kentucky and UK HealthCare conducted a major reboot of their computer systems early Sunday morning in an effort to end a month-long cyberattack that university officials say is the most substantial cyber intrusion in university history.
The unidentified “threat actors” infiltrated Kentucky’s largest university system in early February from somewhere outside the United States and installed malware that utilized UK’s vast processing capabilities to mine cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin, said Eric Monday, UK’s executive vice president for finance and administration.
The protracted intrusion, which the university believes it resolved early Sunday morning during a campus-wide network outage, has repeatedly caused a slowing or temporary failure of computer systems used by students and employees, an effect that was likely “most acute” on the health care side, said university spokesman Jay Blanton.
By ALEX ACQUISTO
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