{"id":2549,"date":"2022-05-19T23:39:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T23:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2549"},"modified":"2022-05-19T23:39:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T23:39:16","slug":"covid-ransomware-predominantly-black-college-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/covid-ransomware-predominantly-black-college-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID + Ransomware = Predominantly Black College Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? As a result of COVID and a ransomware attack, Lincoln College, a predominantly Black college, in Iowa is closing after 157 years. 157 years!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? After making costly tech investments to accommodate COVID, in December 2021, a ransomware attack &#8220;walled off the school\u2019s access to its data and halted its recruitment, retention and fund-raising campaigns.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? a forewarning for other institutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/security\/lincoln-college-closure-is-just-another-ransomware-milestone?utm_campaign=Newsletter%20-%20GOV%20-%20Future%20of%20Security&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=213280252&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_H4iZPYKLJctlCR7coUAVU2nq5as3wGwFE3TtSJQWp_wFuxmCdSIRAuqKQ6q58P2a7-O89ODnPC1KmEv0Uzo9tz5L3jZDrEGmbVF5kIcs_w5AMwr8&amp;utm_content=213280252&amp;utm_source=hs_email\">Government Technology | Lincoln College Closure Is Just Another Ransomware Milestone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? As a result of COVID and a ransomware attack, Lincoln College, a predominantly Black college, in Iowa is closing after 157 years. 157 years! Why is this important? After making costly tech investments to accommodate COVID, in December 2021, a ransomware attack &#8220;walled off the school\u2019s access to its data and halted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2549\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}