Blackbaud hack: Second Welsh university's data attacked in hack
27 July 2020Image copyright Google Maps Image caption The University of South Wales is the second Welsh university to confirm it has been affected
A second Welsh university has confirmed it was one of more than 20 institutions across the world to have been affected by hackers attacking a cloud provider.
The University of South Wales said it understood "email addresses and names of a section of our alumni database" were attacked in the Blackbaud hack.
The education software giant was held to ransom by hackers in May and paid an undisclosed ransom to cyber-criminals.
Aberystwyth University had previously admitted some of its data had been hit.
Blackbaud is the world's largest provider of education administration, fundraising, and financial management software.
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The US-based firm declined to provide a complete lists of those affected but institutions in the UK, US and Canada have been affected, including a number of prominent UK universities.
The latest to confirm is the University of South Wales, which has campuses in Cardiff, Newport, Pontypridd and Dubai, and is Wales' second largest university.
