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Ransomware gang says it hacked a Virginia school district, stole data
Ransomware gang Fog yesterday claimed responsibility for a February 2025 data breach at Williamsburg-James City County Schools in Virginia. The group is demanding an undisclosed amount be paid in ransom in exchange for stolen data. WJCC announced it was hit by a cyber attack on February 9 and that systems were restored by February 14. An investigation of the attack…
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Ransomware gang says it hacked a South Carolina school district
Ransomware gang Medusa yesterday claimed responsibility for a cyber attack earlier this month at Laurens County School District 56 in South Carolina. Medusa gave the school district two weeks to pay a $320,000 ransom, or else it threatens to sell or release 2.4 TB of the school’s private data. To prove its claim, Medusa posted a sample of images that…
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Georgia school district issues data breach notification after ransomware claim – SSNs & account numbers leaked
Muscogee County School District has started issuing data breach notifications following a cyber attack in December 2024. This attack was claimed by ransomware gang SafePay in late January with 382 GB of data allegedly stolen. In its notification, Muscogee County School District (MCSD) states that it detected suspicious activity on its network on December 26, 2024. However, after investigation, it…
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Ransomware gang demands $2 million from Tennessee school district after cyber attack
Ransomware gang Rhysida today claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on Rutherford County Schools in Tennessee. Rutherford County Schools on December 1 confirmed it was the target of a cyber attack that occurred on November 25, 2024. The district’s website says, “Rutherford County Schools recently became aware of a network disruption affecting its systems. We promptly launched an investigation into…
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Ransomware gang demands $1.4 million from Louisiana school district
Ransomware gang Rhysida is demanding $1.4 million from a southern Louisiana school district. Rhysida yesterday claimed responsibility for an October 7, 2024 cyber attack on Vermilion Parish School System that forced schools in the district to take their computer systems offline. The cybercriminal group says it stole confidential data from the school, and it gave Vermilion Parish seven days to…
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Ransomware gang claims cyberattack that shut down a Pennsylvania school district
Ransomware gang RansomHub today claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on Interboro Schools last month. The Pennsylvania school district confirmed it was the victim of a ransomware attack on October 28, 2024, and cancelled classes the following day due to network issues. In a post on its leak site, RansomHub says it stole 1.1 TB of data from the school…
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Ransomware gang claims responsibility for cyber attack on Ohio school district that cancelled classes
Ransomware gang BlackSuit today claimed responsibility for an October 2024 cyber attack on Marysville Schools in Ohio. The gang says it stole 121 GB of data from the school district. Marysville Schools has not verified BlackSuit’s claim, but on October 26, 2024, the district announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack. Classes were canceled due to the resulting…
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Why Getting Your Neighborhood Declared a Historic District Is a Bad Idea
If you’ve ever gone back to your childhood home after a long absence, you have a sense of how quickly Americans reinvent, well, everything. Buildings that are only a few decades old get torn down, empty space gets filled, whole neighborhoods are transformed, and familiar landmarks vanish. This kind of constant change is part of the American psyche in a…
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Ransomware gang claims it breached Tennessee school district, disrupted internet access
Ransomware gang Rhysida this week claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on Henry County Schools in Tennessee. The group posted samples of what it says are confidential documents stolen from the school district. Rhysida posted a proof pack of documents it claims to have stolen from Henry County Schools. Henry County Schools has not verified Rhysida’s claim. The district posted…
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Illinois school district notifies 1,500 people of data breach that compromised SSNs
Joliet Public Schools District 86 in Illinois sent data breach notices to 1,495 people following a May 2024 cyber attack that compromised names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth. Ransomware group LockBit claimed responsibility for the attack on July 18, and gave JPSD86 until August 4 to pay an undisclosed ransom. LockBit posted a proof pack on its website…
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