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Ransomware criminals are targeting nation's schools, dumping kids' private files online
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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.
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Ransomware criminals are targeting nation's schools, dumping kids' private files online
- FRANK BAJAK, HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and LARRY FENN Associated Press
- Jul 5, 2023
- Jul 5, 2023 Updated Jan 8, 2024
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Hackers try to steal passwords to gain access to computer networks. If they are successful, they encrypt the data. And demand a ransom for the password to remove the encryption.
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The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy — even suicide attempts.
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