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Cybercriminals are Targeting Schools, They are not Ready

This March, Minneapolis Public Schools district witnessed a major ransomware attack, losing thousands of private information such as students’ mental health records, sexual assault incidents, suspensions and truancy reports, child abuse allegations, special education plans, that were released online. 

In 2022, a similar incident took place in Los Angeles school district, compromising students’ psychological records. Baltimore County Public Schools had a cyberattack in 2020 that caused the district’s remote learning programs to be interrupted, its business to be frozen, and cost the school system close to $10 million. The Chambersburg Area School District in Pennsylvania was the most recent educational institution to experience a cyberattack on September 1.

School districts have grown into a frequent target for school districts across the country, where cybercrime actors are regarding school systems as easy targets, due to a lack of cybersecurity infrastructure. Although many school districts are beginning to protect that infrastructure, experts say there is still much work to be done.

Following a phishing attack in 2019, Atlanta Public Schools district deployed a private firm to look into their networks and find loopholes and vulnerabilities, according to Olufemi “Femi” Aina, the district’s executive director of information technology. Apparently, the district has also introduced security measures including multi-factor authentication on school devices, purchased in

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