Xavier University of Louisiana (“XULA”) filed a notice of data breach with the Maine Attorney General after learning that the school was the recent target of a ransomware attack compromising personal information belonging to certain students.
Based on the company’s official filing, the incident resulted in an unauthorized party gaining access to students’ full names and Social Security numbers. After confirming that consumer data was leaked, XULA began sending out data breach notification letters to all individuals who were impacted by the recent data security incident.