Selwyn College, Cambridge issued a similar statement:
> We recently learned that Selwyn was one of a number of educational and voluntary sector organisations in Cambridge, the UK and across the world to have been affected by a data breach at the US company Blackbaud. [...] In order to protect customers’ data and mitigate potential identity theft, Blackbaud met the ransomware demand in relation to this file. Blackbaud has advised us that having paid the ransom it received assurances that this data had been destroyed and since then there has been no indication that this data remains in circulation.
They also linked to Blackbaud's statement, which confirms they paid the ransom:
> Because protecting our customers’ data is our top priority, we paid the cybercriminal’s demand with confirmation that the copy they removed had been destroyed.
Incidentally, the notification was sent via Blackbaud, and appears to track that I clicked through to the statement (URL includes bblinkid/bbemailid/bbejrid parameters).
> We recently learned that Selwyn was one of a number of educational and voluntary sector organisations in Cambridge, the UK and across the world to have been affected by a data breach at the US company Blackbaud. [...] In order to protect customers’ data and mitigate potential identity theft, Blackbaud met the ransomware demand in relation to this file. Blackbaud has advised us that having paid the ransom it received assurances that this data had been destroyed and since then there has been no indication that this data remains in circulation.
They also linked to Blackbaud's statement, which confirms they paid the ransom:
> Because protecting our customers’ data is our top priority, we paid the cybercriminal’s demand with confirmation that the copy they removed had been destroyed.
Incidentally, the notification was sent via Blackbaud, and appears to track that I clicked through to the statement (URL includes bblinkid/bbemailid/bbejrid parameters).
https://www.selwynalumni.com/main-website-pages/blackbaud-da...
https://www.blackbaud.co.uk/newsroom/news-archives/2020/07/1...