{"id":632753,"date":"2026-06-11T08:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632753\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:50:15","slug":"students-data-taken-in-major-university-of-nottingham-cyber-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/632753\/","title":{"rendered":"Students’ data taken in major University of Nottingham cyber-attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

The cyber-attack comes after the university told 2,700 staff that they are at risk of redundancy<\/a> – more than a third of its workforce – as it responds to “changing sector demands” which are causing “financial challenges”. <\/p>\n

It confirmed it was proposing to cut 609 of its 7,363 full-time equivalent roles over the next three years.<\/p>\n

In response, staff began a boycott of marking and assessments<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The University and College Union (UCU) said the action would “effectively block the university from handing out graduation certificates”.<\/p>\n

One of those affected, Abigail Maguire, told the BBC<\/a> of her fears over plans to use her earlier grades to arrive at her final degree grade, which she says will not reflect her final-year work for which she has been averaging first-class scores.<\/p>\n

Maguire said her brother had died before she enrolled at the university, but the loss had created a lasting impact.<\/p>\n

“I was struggling with certain traumatic findings from his death, [and] I was also surpassing him in age at that time, which was also really difficult,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I was also dealing with physical health problems, and it severely affected my course and my grades, so I appealed to the university and explained my situation.<\/p>\n

“They didn’t give me a choice, they didn’t give me an opportunity to take the exams when I was in a better state of mind… I passed, but just about, and they said ‘just do better in your third year’.<\/p>\n

“I worked really hard in my third year, I managed to average for a first, so that makes up for the lost marks in my second year, and now all of that could just be overridden, and just worthless.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cyber-attack comes after the university told 2,700 staff that they are at risk of redundancy – more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632754,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-632753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}