India, Nov. 10 -- Vanderbilt University has asked students, faculty and staff to disconnect their devices from the campus network after a suspected ransomware attack disrupted university systems on Monday. A ransomware group calling itself BYOD has claimed responsibility and alleged it stole data belonging to more than one million people associated with the university.

In a separate university notification cited by Axios, Vanderbilt instructed users to "SHUT DOWN YOUR DEVICE IMMEDIATELY" and warned against investigating or attempting to fix the issue independently to reduce further security risks.

"Everyone is following VU protocols and waiting for further instruction," Blair School of Music Dean Melissa Rose told students in a message ...