{"id":787551,"date":"2026-07-08T04:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787551\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T04:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:49:13","slug":"calgary-university-investigating-cyberattack-affecting-students-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/787551\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary university investigating cyberattack affecting students, employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University hit by cyberattack<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press &#8211; Jul 7, 2026 \/ 6:25 pm | Story: 623683<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"A man uses a computer keyboard in Toronto in this Sunday, Oct. 9, 2023 photo illustration. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Graeme Roy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6637863c874a2a8cf3359a9741b8e88c64d07848b406130ef9d6c3c8d28731f8.jpg\" style=\"height:427px; width:640px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>A man uses a computer keyboard in Toronto in this Sunday, Oct. 9, 2023 photo illustration. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Graeme Roy<\/p>\n<p>A university in Calgary says it&#8217;s investigating a cyberattack.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Royal University says in a statement that it notified affected students and employees about the attack on June 18.<\/p>\n<p>The university says some data was taken and deleted, while departmental information was simply deleted without being accessed.<\/p>\n<p>It says full data recovery may not be possible.<\/p>\n<p>The university is offering some of those affected with credit monitoring and identity theft protection services as a precautionary measure.<\/p>\n<p>It says it has also reported the attack to police and Alberta&#8217;s information and privacy commissioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University hit by cyberattack The Canadian Press &#8211; Jul 7, 2026 \/ 6:25 pm | Story: 623683 Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-787551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}