“In this case, everybody has a key,” said cybersecurity expert Ian Coldwater, whose son attends a Minneapolis high school. Rich in digitized data, the nation’s schools are prime targets for far-flung criminal hackers, who are assiduously locating and scooping up sensitive files that not long ago were committed to paper in locked cabinets.
Other exposed data included medical records, discrimination complaints, Social Security numbers and contact information of district employees. Other victims talked about wetting the bed or crying themselves to sleep.Ĭomplete sexual assault case folios containing these details were among more than 300,000 files dumped online in March after the 36,000-student Minneapolis Public Schools refused to pay a $1 million ransom. “Please do something,” begged a student in one leaked file, recalling the trauma of continually bumping into an ex-abuser at a school in Minneapolis. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric hospitalizations, abusive parents, truancy - even suicide attempts. The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic.
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