Cyber criminals targeting academy schools, says HWB chartered accountancy
CYBER criminals are finding ways to hold academy schools to ransom, an expert has warned. Michaela Johns, director of Chandlers Ford-based chartered accountancy firm HWB, said some schools were keeping quiet about their experience of ransomware attacks. She works as an external auditor with academies and independent schools in Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire. She said: “When a school is targeted with a ransomware attack they are often embarrassed and want to keep it quiet. The government’s Education and Skills Funding Agency is urging schools to let them know when attacks occur so...
Source: dailyecho.co.uk