Jan 25, 2022, 8:47 PM
(from NBC News) Ransomware hackers have taken to threatening not just schools but students enrolled at them if schools do not pay ransoms for school data that they "hold hostage." Ransomware hackers have littered the dark web with school children’s personal information. Often working as loosely affiliated gangs with members in different countries, the hackers have made millions of dollars in recent years by attacking the computer networks of American companies, schools, hospitals and cities. Despite the Biden White House’s policies to slow their attacks, they were roughly as productive against U.S. targets last year as they were the previous two, successfully attacking more than 1,000 school districts and health care providers in 2021. Families are outraged when they do not hear from the school first that school data was taken ransom.
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