In January 2024 cyberthieves hacked into East Valley Institute of Technology’s IT infrastructure and stole personal information from over 200,000 current and former students and employees.
Today, two class-action lawsuits filed against the Mesa vocational education provider over that data beach are making their way through Maricopa County Superior Court.
One suit claims the culprit behind the cyberattack was a criminal group known as LockBit – which in 2022 was the most deployed ransomware variant across the world and continued to be prolific in 2023, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…