Security teams chose to pro-actively shut down the servers rather than leave systems vulnerable, a decision that chief executive officer Sarah Meilleur credits with saving the library%u2019s infrastructure, stopping the attack and ensuring that no business, employee or member data was compromised.
“Because we were able to stop the attack from being fully implemented, we were never in contact with a threat actor at any point to really understand what they were looking for or what their intentions were,” Ms. Meilleur said.
“There’s no conclusive evidence to determine who the attacker was, so we’ll probably never know.”
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