Ransomware criminals are dumping kids' private files online after school hacks
apnews.com
Ransomware gangs have been stealing confidential documents from schools and dumping them online. The documents describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents — even suicide attempts.
  • martini1992@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    Criminal does immoral thing, imagine that! The issue is that the data isn’t being stored securely in the first place. If it’s not encrypted the game is over as soon as they steal it the data. More needs to be done to ensure the safe storage of this highly sensitive information, and sorting as little of it as possible in as few places as possible. Schools are not equipped to handle this data themselves it needs to be entrusted to an entity (private/government/whomever) that has the time and expertise to keep it securely and properly manage secure access when needed.

  • Raphael@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 year ago

    The documents describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents — even suicide attempts.

    Expected nothing less from this fake theocracy.