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06-07-2023, 12:30 PM
BY FRANK BAJAK, HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH AND LARRY FENN
Published 3:50 PM GMT+8, July 5, 2023
The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts.
“Please do something,” begged a student in one leaked file, recalling the trauma of continually bumping into an ex-abuser at a school in Minneapolis. Other victims talked about wetting the bed or crying themselves to sleep.
Complete sexual assault case folios containing these details were among more than 300,000 files dumped online in March after the 36,000-student Minneapolis Public Schools refused to pay a $1 million ransom. Other exposed data included medical records, discrimination complaints, Social Security numbers and contact information of district employees.
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Months after the Minneapolis attack, administrators have not delivered on their promise to inform individual victims.
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Los Angeles Unified School District ...... see the private paperwork of more than 1,900 former students — including psychological evaluations and medical records — leaked online. Not until February did district officials disclose the breach’s full dimensions
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Other big districts recently stung by data theft include San Diego, Des Moines and Tucson, Arizona.
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all have been criticized either for being slow to admit to being hit by ransomware, dragging their feet on notifying victims — or both.
Ransomware likely has affected well over 5 million U.S. students by now, with district attacks on track to rise this year
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“Everyone wants schools to be more secure, but very few want to see their taxes raised to do it,” Liska said.
Parents have instead pushed to use limited funds on things like bilingual teachers and new football helmets, said Albuquerque schools superintendent Scott Elder, whose district suffered a January 2022 ransomware attack.
Very much better to read full report at: https://apnews.com/article/schools-ranso...607bfed9b0
Published 3:50 PM GMT+8, July 5, 2023
The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts.
“Please do something,” begged a student in one leaked file, recalling the trauma of continually bumping into an ex-abuser at a school in Minneapolis. Other victims talked about wetting the bed or crying themselves to sleep.
Complete sexual assault case folios containing these details were among more than 300,000 files dumped online in March after the 36,000-student Minneapolis Public Schools refused to pay a $1 million ransom. Other exposed data included medical records, discrimination complaints, Social Security numbers and contact information of district employees.
......
Months after the Minneapolis attack, administrators have not delivered on their promise to inform individual victims.
......
Los Angeles Unified School District ...... see the private paperwork of more than 1,900 former students — including psychological evaluations and medical records — leaked online. Not until February did district officials disclose the breach’s full dimensions
......
Other big districts recently stung by data theft include San Diego, Des Moines and Tucson, Arizona.
......
all have been criticized either for being slow to admit to being hit by ransomware, dragging their feet on notifying victims — or both.
Ransomware likely has affected well over 5 million U.S. students by now, with district attacks on track to rise this year
......
“Everyone wants schools to be more secure, but very few want to see their taxes raised to do it,” Liska said.
Parents have instead pushed to use limited funds on things like bilingual teachers and new football helmets, said Albuquerque schools superintendent Scott Elder, whose district suffered a January 2022 ransomware attack.
Very much better to read full report at: https://apnews.com/article/schools-ranso...607bfed9b0
