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This story was produced in partnership with The Acadiana Advocate, a Louisiana-based newsroom. It was early August when teacher Heather Vidrine first heard about a cyberattack on her former school district in St. Landry Parish, but she didn’t think much about it — even after her Facebook got hacked. Now, she’s left to wonder whether […]
It was a Thursday morning when Brandi Hecht, a mother of three from Las Vegas, woke up to an alarming email from a student in another state whom she’d never met. “I’m so sorry to tell you this but unfortunately your private information has been leaked,” read the email, sent to Hecht in the middle […]
As a new academic year begins, a school district in an affluent Washington, D.C., suburb is rolling out stringent security measures, including metal detectors and a clear backpack mandate, to keep danger from entering its buildings. Yet even before the first class started, the 133,000-student district in Prince George’s County, Maryland, faced an assault on […]
Shortly before First Lady Jill Biden took the podium at the White House Tuesday to champion a new federal initiative to combat K-12 school ransomware attacks, the cyber gang Medusa announced its latest victim on the dark web. Such unrelenting attacks — this time against a Bergen County, New Jersey district —are what brought the […]