Monroe College in Fordham has been reportedly hacked, with hackers demanding $2 million worth of Bitcoin to undo the now encrypted files.

The breach, first reported by the New York Daily News, is now being investigated by the NYPD. Monroe College, founded in 1933, has campuses in Fordham, Manhattan, and New Rochelle in Westchester County. The website is currently down.

 

My school’s servers are currently being held hostage for $2M in bitcoin. Thank God. I had a term paper due today. #bitcoin #hostage #monroecollege #miracle

— Jacklynn Hyde (@HydeJacklynn) July 11, 2019

Officials have turned to its Facebook account to alert students of the outage. In a letter from Marc Jerome, Monroe College president, said the school is working “feverishly to bring everything back online, and we are working with the appropriate authorities to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.”

“In the meantime, Monroe continues to operate. We’re simply doing it the way college’s did before email and Internet, which results in more personal interaction,” Jerome wrote.

Sources tell the Daily News that the breach has impacted the college’s network campuses and facilities. Roughly 8,000 students currently attend the school.

This won’t impact employee payroll records, according to Monroe College spokeswoman Jackie Ruegger. At the moment, Ruegger says, the school’s IT department is attempting to work around the issue.