Ransomware isn’t just costly, but it can jeopardise the privacy of private citizens - including children - and undermine confidence in school systems.
Officials in southern Arizona’s largest school district tried assuring students and staff for weeks that, despite the cyberattack, sensitive data wasn’t stolen.
Ransomware can wreak havoc: Financial institutions flagged almost US$1.2bil in likely ransomware-related payments in 2021 alone, according to the US Treasury Department. Many cases go unreported, so the actual number may be higher. And as TUSD’s attack shows, ransomware isn’t just costly, but it can jeopardise the privacy of private citizens - including children - and undermine confidence in school systems.
By late March, after Bloomberg began contacting people affected by the breach, Trujillo said in a staff email that unspecified"employee information of a confidential and sensitive nature” was accessed, but not Social Security numbers. Bloomberg found more than 16,000 numbers and birth dates tied to current and former employees on the dark web.
The Tucson attack began sometime about Jan 30, interviews and documents show. One morning, staffers were greeted by a message from the attackers, who used a type of ransomware called Royal, sent to printers across the district."If you are reading this, it means that your system were hit by Royal ransomware,” the author wrote. Since the beginning, the group indicated that some of TUSD's data could be uploaded online for anyone to see.
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