What Kind of A—hole Ransoms School Data?
You’ve got to be a grade A sleaze bag to steal from kids’ public schools.
But that’s exactly what a growing number of slime balls are doing when they hack into schools’ computer networks and hold their data for ransom.
Even worse – districts are paying it!
Just this week the Rockville Center School District in New York state paid an $88,000 ransom to get back files that had been encrypted by Ryuk ransomware.
The district negotiated the payment down from $176,000. School directors only decided to pay after realizing it would cost more to hire another firm to fix the problem.
Plus the school had insurance that covered ransomware so it only ended up losing its $10,000 deductible.
But this district isn’t the only one being extorted by CONTINUE READING: What Kind of A—hole Ransoms School Data? | gadflyonthewallblog
