Chief Warrant Officer Robert Osside Institute

Summary

A cyber attack struck four Canadian military training institutions, temporarily disabling their online networks and hitting core systems. The affected sites included Kingston’s Royal Military College, RMC Saint‑Jean in Quebec, the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, and the Chief Warrant Officer Robert Osside Institute. The incident was discovered on a Friday morning and resulted in a temporary disruption of services.

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Description

On the morning of Friday, July 3, 2020, a cyber attack was discovered that targeted several military training institutions in Canada. The attack temporarily disabled the online network of the affected institutions. According to a report by Samantha Butler-Hassan on databreaches.net, the incident was described as a mysterious cyber attack. David Skillicorn, a professor of computing at Queen’s University, observed that it appeared all core systems had been hit. He noted that the disruption was significant enough to interrupt normal online operations. The discovery was made early in the day, prompting an immediate response from the institutions’ IT staff.

The attack impacted four specific military schools: Kingston’s Royal Military College, the Royal Military College Saint-Jean in Quebec, the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, and the Chief Warrant Officer Robert Osside Institute. Each of these institutions reported that their core systems were affected by the same incident. The disruption was characterized as temporary, with network services being restored after the initial outage. No further details about the attack vector or perpetrators were provided in the source material. The report was published on July 3, 2020, under Source Report ID 2c9c87dd-ea4a-4e8e-b204-3162f85fdcba. The incident was reported as affecting the online networks of the four institutions.

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