The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts…
While the severity of those hacks remains unclear, all have been criticized either for being slow to admit to being hit by ransomware, dragging their feet on notifying victims — or both.have fortified and segmented networks, encrypting data and mandating multi-factor authentication, school systems have been slower to react.
Just three years ago, criminals did not routinely grab data in ransomware attacks, said TJ Sayers, cyberthreat intelligence manager at the Center for Internet Security.The criminals in the Minneapolis theft were especially aggressive. 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.“The family is beyond horrified to learn that this highly sensitive information is now available in perpetuity on the internet for the child’s future friends, romantic interests, employers, and others to discover,” said Jeff Storms, an attorney for one of the families.
She wondered about her graduating 18-year-old. “If their identity is stolen, just how hard is that going to make my kid’s life?”routinely advised by incident response teams
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