Hackers release data from the Los Angeles Unified School District attack

 Authorities did not disclose the specific type of data stolen in the cyberattack on the Los Angeles Unified School District, but the data included employee health records and payroll.

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The hacker group that carried out the cyberattack against the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has released a large amount of the district's data on the internet.

The KTLA news channel on October 3 quoted a local official as saying that in the above cyber attack, the hacker group stole more than 500 gigabytes of data and demanded the LAUSD to pay a ransom before October 3 in exchange for the data. whether stolen.

However, on the evening of October 1, the group released the data online after the LAUSD administrators announced their refusal to pay a ransom to the hacker group.

In a statement, Alberto Carvalho, head of LAUSD, asserted that paying ransoms to hackers cannot guarantee the school's full data recovery.

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Authorities did not disclose the specific type of data stolen, but according to KTLA, among the above data were health records and payroll of employees.

The cyberattack on the Los Angeles Unified School District, which includes the second largest public school system in the US, occurred on September 5 when hackers attacked with ransomware malware .

The incident caused serious disruption, but classes were not closed. After the incident, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that other major school districts in the US are also at risk of experiencing a similar type of cyber attack.

For the 2020-2021 school year, LAUSD has approximately 664,774 students, 25,088 teachers, and 50,586 employees.