Coral Glades High School, part of Broward County Public Schools. The $40 million ransomware attack on the district was one of a wave of cases targeting educational institutions over the last couple of weeks. (Formulanone, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
The Conti ransomware gang encrypted the systems at Broward County Public Schools several weeks ago and threatened to release sensitive student, teacher and employee personal data unless the district paid an enormous $40 million ransom.
Broward County Public Schools, the nation’s sixth largest school district with an annual budget of about $4 billion, told parents about a network outage on March 7 that negatively impacted online teaching, but based on this new information, the incident was clearly much more serious.
First reported by DataBeaches.net, the hackers threatened to make public a vast trove of personal data, including the social security numbers of students, teachers and employees, addresses, dates of birth and school district financial contact information.
Broward County Public Schools Thursday released a statement saying it hired a cybersecurity firm to investigate and remediate the attack. The district also said it did not intend to pay t ..
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