Cybercriminals see private schools as increasingly attractive extortion targets and are threatening to publish sensitive data on the dark web.
Cybercriminals see private schools as increasingly attractive extortion targets, threatening to publish sensitive student and parent data unless school authorities pay a ransom, according to the nation’s top cyber spy agency.
Schools typically hold significant amounts of students’ personal details, including health information, psychological reports, details of disciplinary action and test results as well as parents’ payment details. The malicious actor had persistent access to the association’s network for three days and federal police were called in to prevent a repeat of such attacks.Hackers gained access to the credit card details of about 400 parents at Mount Lilydale Mercy College, a Catholic school in Melbourne’s outer east, last year.
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