Update Monday 7am:
It appears the website for Confederation College is still down this morning following a malware attack on its IT systems.
A cyber expert is working with the school to determine what damage may have been done.
The college says there’s no evidence any personal information was taken.
They learned about the incident Saturday morning and have now shut down all of their I.T. services.
Officials are asking students and staff to reset any College passwords that they reused elsewhere or stored in the College system.
At this time we have no evidence that any personal info has been removed from our systems, though this will be the focus of a forensic investigation to be conducted by an outside cyber expert we are now working with.
— ConfederationCollege (@Confederation) February 2, 2020
If we learn that personal information was removed, we will notify all affected individuals. Out of an abundance of caution, if you stored personal passwords on the College system, e-mailed personal passwords using a College e-mail account or…
— ConfederationCollege (@Confederation) February 2, 2020
We expect to recover services over the next week, but our expert’s investigation will be thorough and will likely not be complete for some time. We are sorry this has occurred & thank you for your patience. We will be able to communicate more in the future.
— ConfederationCollege (@Confederation) February 2, 2020
