Potential Cybersecurity Incident Updates

Thank you for your continued patience and cooperation as Wilmington College works to fully restore operations across all systems in the wake of suspicious activity involving our network. Systems, applications, and services will be restored in a deliberate and secure manner as work progresses. While we cannot offer a definitive timeline, our third-party cybersecurity team is working around the clock to restore functionality to our network and applications.
 
Classes will continue as scheduled, along with dining, health, and other student-focused services.  Also, most extracurricular activities, including this weekend’s home sporting events, will continue as scheduled.
 
The College has established a landing page on our website where we will share regular updates, information, and FAQs.  The landing page is accessible from the alert at the top of the home page or directly at Cybersecurity Incident Updates.  
 
While this is an ongoing situation, we believe the incident has been contained at this time. However, rest assured that we are working as quickly as possible to complete our investigation and we will provide further updates as information becomes available, with the next one planned for Friday, November 13 by 4:00 PM.
 
We apologize for any inconvenience this event may have caused, and we greatly appreciate your continued cooperation and understanding throughout this process. Thank you again for being part of the Wilmington College community.

Wilmington College recently became aware of suspicious activity on our network that has caused some impact to our network accessibility. Upon discovery of this event, we engaged third-party cybersecurity experts to secure and restore our systems as quickly as possible. We have proactively limited access to our network and are working as quickly as possible to review systems and bring everything back online as quickly as safely possible. The investigation is in the early stages and is ongoing at this time.

There may be a delay in certain services, and certain systems are unavailable. Please continue not to use SharePoint, OneDrive, or Jenzabar.  During this time, we will operate on a normal schedule with classes proceeding as scheduled. 

We do not have any additional information to share at this time, but we will keep you apprised of relevant developments as the investigation continues.

College Closed Nov. 11 to Investigate Potential Network Security Incident

The College closed at noon on Nov. 11 to continue investigating a potential network security incident.  All extracurricular events and activities will continue as scheduled. Student health services and dining services will also remain open and operational.

Students and employees are not to access SharePoint, OneDrive, or Jenzabar until further notice. Wilmington College email remains accessible. They should check their wilmington.edu email for further information and monitor both email and text messages for additional updates.

Information regarding campus operations for Thursday, November 12, will be shared as it becomes available.

The internet access on-campus has been proactively disabled.

The following systems and applications should not be used: Sharepoint, OneDrive, WC Portal, Jenzabar systems and Blackboard.

WC email is currently unavailable due to a widespread and unrelated Microsoft 365 outage.

We are currently unable to make or receive calls.

If you see any abnormal or suspicious activity that you have not already reported, contact Wilmington College IT immediately by logging a ticket with the WC Help Desk.

WC is continuing to assess the situation and determine what data, if any, was impacted by this event. If WC determines that any personal information was accessed or acquired in connection with the incident, we will notify individuals in accordance with state and federal law.