US school districts' slow response to ransomware attacks leaves parents, students feeling doubly victimised after hackers dump tens of thousands of kids' private files online
More than 300,000 files were dumped online in March after 36,000-student Minneapolis Public Schools refused to pay a $1 million ransom. / Photo: AP
Often strapped for cash, districts are grossly ill-equipped not just to defend themselves but to respond diligently and transparently when attacked, especially as they struggle to help kids catch up from the pandemic and grapple with shrinking budgets. The lasting legacy of school ransomware attacks, it turns out, is not in school closures, recovery costs or even soaring cyber insurance premiums.
Nearly one in three US districts had been breached by the end of 2021, according to a survey by the Center for Internet Security, a federally funded nonprofit. Despite parents' and teachers' frustration, schools are routinely advised by incident response teams concerned about legal liability issues and ransom negotiations against being more transparent, said Callow of Emsisoft.
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