Ransomware attack may have caused IT breach that shut all four Cork MTU campuses

Cork School of Music, one of Munster Technological University's four Cork campuses which have been shut due to the cybersecurity threat. Stock picture: Denis Minihane
MTU’s security systems detected the breach at an early stage, but the four Cork campuses — Bishopstown, National Maritime College of Ireland, Crawford College of Art & Design, and the Cork School of Music — remain closed today “to ensure robust student and staff data protection”.

“And in the US, the Department of Health warned that this ransomware is very aggressively targeting healthcare. People need to be really cognisant of the risk associated with this.”
