They got hacked, it makes them look incompetent. People might call for some of the staff to be fired for not having security or backups.
Prospective students, research participants, etc. might hesitate to go to UCSF if their data's going to be exposed.
Also, they paid the ransom. Funding sources from alumni to state legislatures might hesitate to give more dollars, if the university's using its money to pay off extortionists as opposed to improving education or lowering tuition.
The university has lots of reasons to hide what happened.
They do.
They got hacked, it makes them look incompetent. People might call for some of the staff to be fired for not having security or backups.
Prospective students, research participants, etc. might hesitate to go to UCSF if their data's going to be exposed.
Also, they paid the ransom. Funding sources from alumni to state legislatures might hesitate to give more dollars, if the university's using its money to pay off extortionists as opposed to improving education or lowering tuition.
The university has lots of reasons to hide what happened.