by Sam Stanton for the Sacramento Bee, May 21, 2021
Officials at a Northern California community college confirmed Thursday that the outage of the college website and online systems is the result of a ransomware attack, the second such incident in the Sacramento region in the last year.
“We are currently experiencing technical difficulties on the Sierra College website and some other online systems,” spokesman Josh Morgan wrote in an email statement Thursday, one day after college officials began investigating the nature of the outage.
“This is the result of an external ransomware attack on our systems. We are working with law enforcement and third-party cyber security and forensic experts to investigate this incident, assess the potential impact, and bring our systems back online.