Educational Institutions Under Attack: Ransomware Criminals Leak Students’ Sensitive Data Online

School documents containing confidential information have been stolen by ransomware gangs and dumped on the Internet for free. Students are described as being sexually assaulted by other students, hospitalized due to mental health problems, abused by their parents, and even attempting suicide. 

In today’s data-driven economy, our personal information is constantly sent to websites and organizations to automate, transfer, and verify certain processes. Much of this information or data is confidential or private. This includes medical information, financial documents, and personal records such as an address, and may contain sensitive or confidential information. 

In the case of primary schools and universities, schools, and universities are often required to hold large databases of information about their students. These institutions usually maintain large databases of information about their students. 

Unfortunately, as useful as these databases are for automating processes and maintaining records for schools, this trove of information makes these databases big targets for a data breach. 

As a result of the recent cyberattacks, more than 300,000 files, containing the entire case files for sexual assault cases, were leaked onto the net. There was a ransom demand of $1 million pu

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