Personal information from staff was included in data stolen from Cedar Rapids schools, including staff members’ full names, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, bank account and routing numbers, and medical information including diagnosis and treatment information or health insurance information.
Shut down the schools for an accounting system hack.
Cedar Rapids Superintendent Noreen Bush Her letter did not disclose the amount of ransom that was paid, nor provide the name of the group that launched the attack.
That's supposed to be public info, and why would thieves identify themselves? This is the caliber of individual responsible for educating the next generation... Democracy manifest, as school boards are elected.
Aaron Warner, founder and chief executive officer of ProCircular, a computer security service in Coralville, said schools are easy targets because they are some of the least prepared for an attack.
They're easy targets because school districts are politically-structured organizations with an elected board in charge of making decisions and hiring. Democratically-elected institutions are typically weak by their very nature -- idiots -- elected by a community that allows idiots to vote -- that may not have the necessary expertise and knowledge base to operate such an organization, but, by God, they're gonna give it the ol' community college try.
Not an update; this is a different story I thought relevant enough to comment. Been watching diversity and inclusion hires in real time destroying the county with their incompetence of which this is another example.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20220825141934/https://www.thegazette.com/k/cedar-rapids-schools-pay-ransom-in-cyberattack/
Shut down the schools for an accounting system hack.
Her letter did not disclose the amount of ransom that was paid, nor provide the name of the group that launched the attack.
That's supposed to be public info, and why would thieves identify themselves?
This is the caliber of individual responsible for educating the next generation...
Democracy manifest, as school boards are elected.
They're easy targets because school districts are politically-structured organizations with an elected board in charge of making decisions and hiring.
Democratically-elected institutions are typically weak by their very nature -- idiots -- elected by a community that allows idiots to vote -- that may not have the necessary expertise and knowledge base to operate such an organization, but, by God, they're gonna give it the ol' community college try.
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Been watching diversity and inclusion hires in real time destroying the county with their incompetence of which this is another example.