Hackers Circulate Highly Sensitive Files on Minneapolis School Children
Google is taking down CryptBot, Warner urges AI security, Oz institute uncovers Chinese influence campaign, China broadens espionage law, Russians use ransomware to attack supply chains, more
Hackers who broke into the Minneapolis Public Schools earlier this year have circulated around 200,000 files that appear to include highly sensitive documents on schoolchildren and teachers, including allegations of teacher abuse and students’ psychological reports.
The files appeared online in March after the school district announced that it had been the victim of a ransomware cyberattack. Some of the files were printed on school letterheads. Many were listed in folder sets named after Minneapolis schools. They include everything from relatively benign data like contact information to far more sensitive information, including descriptions of students’ behavioral problems and teachers’ Social Security numbers.
In addition to leaking the documents, the hacking group appeared to go a step further, posting about the documents on Twitter and Facebook as well as on a website, which hosted a video that opens with an animated short of a flaming motorcycle, followed by…
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Metacurity to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.