Ransomware gangs are stealing confidential documents stolen from schools and dumping them online.
The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic.
Rich in digitized data, the nation’s schools are prime targets for far-flung criminal hackers, who are assiduously locating and scooping up sensitive files that not long ago were committed to paper in locked cabinets. “In this case, everybody has a key,” said cybersecurity expert Ian Coldwater, whose son attends a Minneapolis high school.
These stolen documents describe very personal events, including abusive parents, suicide attempts and sexual assaults.The lasting legacy of school ransomware attacks, it turns out, is not in school closures, recovery costs or even soaring cyber insurance premiums. Ransomware likely has affected well over 5 million U.S. students by now, with district attacks on track to rise this year, said analyst Allan Liska of the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
They shared links to the stolen data on Facebook, Twitter, Telegram and the dark web, which standard browsers can’t access. The mother of a 16-year-old with autism recently got a letter from the San Diego Unified School District saying her daughter’s medical records may have been leaked online in an Oct. 25 breach.Ransomware has impacted over 5 million students in the U.S.The Minneapolis parents informed by the AP of the leaked sexual assault complaints feel doubly victimized. Their children have battled PTSD, and some even left their schools. Now this.
Minneapolis Schools spokeswoman Crystina Lugo-Beach would not say how many people have been contacted so far or answer any other AP questions about the attack. Minneapolis school officials apparently followed that playbook, initially describing the Feb. 17 attack cryptically as a “system incident,” then as “technical difficulties” and later an “encryption event.”
In a 2023 survey, the Consortium for School Networking, a tech-oriented nonprofit, found just 16% of districts had full-time network security staff, with nearly half devoting 2% or less of their IT budgets to security.Districts who do hire someone often see them snatched away by businesses that can double their salaries, said Keith Krueger, CEO of the consortium.
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