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"Related to email, we will now need to pay for storage for every single email account," said Mary Evansen, communications director for UW-Madison Division of Information Technology.

MADISON, Wis. — When a ransomware attack in October locked Janesville School District students, staff and families out of various online programs, parent Neanda Annen said her initial reaction was to laugh, guessing that a student had attempted to keep their grades hidden. But after the district notified families that they were in contact with the FBI and Department of...

The incident in Janesville is just one of many recent attacks on a nationwide scale. As of August, at least 58 U.S. school districts and educational organizations had been hit by ransomware attacks, including 830 individual schools this year, according to Emsisoft threat analyst Brett Callow. 

The university is undergoing a major consolidation project and entering a new co-location agreement with the Wisconsin Department of Administration.