Hackers are leaking children’s data — and there’s little parents can do.
. It’s also swept up school districts, meaning files from thousands of schools are currently visible on those hackers’ sites.
Public school systems are even less equipped to protect students’ data from dedicated criminal hackers than many private sector businesses, said Doug Levin, the director of the K12 Security Information Exchange, a nonprofit organization devoted to helping schools protect against cyberthreats. But the hackers, spurned by Weslaco’s decision to not pay, dumped the files they pilfered on their website. One of those, still posted online, is an Excel spreadsheet titled “Basic student information” that has a list of approximately 16,000 students,
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that many schools simply don’t know all the information that’s stored on all their computers, and therefore they may not realize the extent of what hackers have stolen.
A spokesperson for Apollo, Allison Overholt, said in an email that the organization was still working to notify students whose information was exposed.
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