Who did it? And what was it?

From the Daily Californian: For two weeks, researchers and students in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at UC Berkeley have been left in the dark concerning a massive and ongoing cybersecurity incident. UC Berkeley is still investigating the incident and officials have told​​ The Daily Californian that law enforcement has been notified. While most EECS systems are now operational, some remain inactive as campus IT personnel work to fully restore the network. The outage began Aug. 25, when all EECS Instructional & Research Information Systems, or IRIS, infrastructure was knocked offline... Campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore later told the Daily Cal in an email that campus began “containment efforts” the following day — claiming campus IT then took down “several systems” as part of a “comprehensive security protocol.” ...

Campus administration has refused to provide details about the known scope or severity of the incident and continues to avoid referring to it as a hack or cyberattack. Gilmore did confirm that UC Berkeley reported the incident to “law enforcement”; however, she declined to name the specific agency or investigative body. Most details about the incident remain unclear...

Full story https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/uc-berkeley-ai-researchers-left-in-dark-following-sweeping-eecs-cybersecurity-incident/article_7f60ce15-c13c-4d6e-9f83-8db8fd83f0e2.html.