The cyberattack that hit the Los Angeles Unified School District last September was worse than initially reported—with hackers accessing about 2,000 sensitive student records, district officials confirmed Feb. 24 to The Epoch Times.
A ransomware group stole a portion of the district’s records and threatened to publish the information if it did not pay a ransom. When Superintendent Alberto Carvalho refused, the group published the data online weeks later.
Initially, Carvalho said an analysis of the published information revealed no critical information involving current employees or students.
However, after further investigation, the district learned more data than originally thought was compromised, Jack Kelanic, the district’s senior information technology administrator, told the Epoch Times in an email….