Ransomware criminals target schools, dump kids' files online
Rich in digitized data, the nation's schools are prime targets for far-flung criminal hackers, who are assiduously locating and scooping up sensitive files.
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Rich in digitized data, the nation's schools are prime targets for far-flung criminal hackers, who are assiduously locating and scooping up sensitive files.
Complete sexual assault case folios containing these details were among more than 300,000 files dumped online in March after the 36,000-student Minneapolis Public Schools refused to pay a $1 million ransom.
The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents
Minneapolis community members reacting to the Department of Justice’s investigation into Minneapolis police say they’ve experienced discrimination for years.
A Department of Justice investigation found the Minneapolis Police Department is racist and abusive to Black and brown people.