Schools have faced A cyber attack Since the pandemic has been broken nationwide education five years ago, but district leaders nationwide have used a spreading model that spreads the real victims in the dark, a investigation. of 74 programs.
An in -depth analysis recorded more than 300 cyber attacks in the past five years showed that the level of school leaders in almost every states continuously provides mistakes for students, parents and parents. Staff about the safety of their sensitive information. At the same time, consultants and lawyers directed the privileged investigation of Muslims, keeping important details hidden from the public.
In more than two dozen cases, educators were forced to return for months and in some cases, more than a year, telling their community that sensitive information, which includes, partly, the parts Special Education Department, challenging mental health and sexual misconduct of students, has not been exposed. While many of the school officials offered the story, others refused to acknowledge the basic details of cyber attacks and their influence on individuals, even after hackers. Make students' information and teachers openly.
The hollowness in school messages is not a coincidence.
That's because the first people who were warned after a school's cyber attacks were often not the public nor the police. The district's incident response plan places insurance companies and Phalanxes of their privacy lawyers first. They undertake feedback, focusing on restricting contact with school lawsuits by parents or employees.
Lawyers, often used by a few law companies Factory violations By a law professor for their huge caseloads, hiring forensic network analysts, crisis media and ransom negotiators on behalf of schools, placing discussions under the shield of the shield. Private law-customer Compliance with data privacy To be A growth industry For these professional lawyers, those who work to control the story.
Results: Students, families and district staff with personal data are published online from their financial and health information to painful events in the lives of young people, do not know anything Regarding their contact and the risk of identity, fraud and other online forms of exploitation. Saying earlier, they may have taken the steps to protect themselves.
Similarly, the public often does not know when the school officials quietly agree in closed meetings to return Cybergangs ransom requirements to restore their files and unlock their computer systems. . Research shows that rise in the incident Has been promoted, at least partly, because the willingness to pay for insurance companies. The hacker himself has stated That when a network insurance goals, ransom payments are all but are guaranteed.
In 2023, there were 121 ransomware attacks on K-12 schools and colleges, according to CompareA network security website focuses on consumers that researchers admit that the number is a sum. An analysis of Malwareebytes network security company Reported 265 ransomware attacks against the global education field in 2023, an increase of 70 % compared to the previous year, making it the worst Ransomware year recorded in education.
Daniel Schwarcz, Lawyer of Minnesota University, wrote Report in 2023 for the Journal of Law & Technology Harvard Criticizing the security and doubling that Shroud School attacked the cyber as soon as lawyers, often called violating coaches, arrested at the scene.
There is a good boundary between misleading and you know, technically accurate, Mr. Schwarcz told 74.
When the violation does not speak out
The survey of 74 on the behind -the -scenes decision decision decisions, when and how the chief learning zones reveal cyber attacks based on thousands of documents obtained through the public record requirements. declared from more than two dozen districts and the school's spending data associated with law firms, ransomware negotiators and other counselors hired to run the district's answers. It also includes an analysis of millions of records of the stolen school area uploaded to Cybergangs leaked websites.
Some of the most sensitive information of students living indefinitely on the Dark Web, a hidden part of the Internet is often used for anonymous communication and illegal activities. Other personal data can be found online with less than a Google search even when the governments academic records that their records have been stolen and Cyberthieves are proud of their latest scores.