However, officials were not prepared last week to say how many people are affected. The number of individuals with compromised personal data appears to be small-compared to the millions of people who have data held in district systems. The school system refused to pay a ransom and, as a result, the hackers posted about 500 gigabytes of district data online.
Still, district officials believe that the fast counteraction averted pervasive data theft. Technicians quickly shut down computer systems to blunt the intrusion, although some disruptions continue more than a month later.Ībout half of the servers were encrypted in the facilities division-making them inaccessible. Unified attack was discovered on Saturday, Sept. "Unfortunately reversing a data breach is like putting toothpaste back in the tube," said Jeremy Kirk, executive editor for security and technology for Information Security Media Group. Also, the data could be exploited far into the future, in ways that are difficult to detect, let alone prevent. "Students are trusting the school district to keep their information safe and clearly they haven't managed to do so," said Runa Sandvik, a security researcher and founder of Granitt, a startup that focuses on security for journalists and at-risk people around the world.Įxperts warn there is no reason to trust cybercriminals over how much data they said they stole. Unified, which manages records for millions of current and former students, employees and contractors. And costly cybersecurity prevention has to compete with other pressing needs-becoming a financial and staffing burden for small districts and an extraordinarily complicated task for a behemoth such as L.A.
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Superintendent Alberto Carvalho expressed confidence last week that the criminal syndicate behind the attack largely failed to steal valuable data, the implications and full extent of the breach remain difficult to know.Įducation institutions have been increasingly targeted in recent years, in part because they have multiple public-facing portals and third-party applications accessible to students, parents and the community. Uncertainties over the stolen data will persist well into the future not only for the district but also for those whose personal information was published on the dark web, they said.Īlthough L.A. The repercussions of an attack on vulnerable school systems can be strong, long-lasting and expensive, which is why cybersecurity experts warn against expecting a quick and clean resolution to the massive hack in September on the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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