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Judson ISD says it paid hackers more than $500K to protect sensitive information
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San Antonio Express-News
Aug. 4, 2021
Updated: Aug. 4, 2021 4:47 p.m.
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The ransomware attack that hit Judson Independent School District in June resulted in a payment to the hackers of more than half a million dollars to keep sensitive information from being uploaded to the dark web, officials said.
The ransom payment of $547,045 will keep “identifiable information” from being published online in places where “other threat actors could potentially access and misuse this data,” the district said in a statement posted to social media Wednesday.
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Updated: Aug. 4, 2021 4:47 p.m.
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The ransomware attack that hit Judson Independent School District in June resulted in a payment to the hackers of more than half a million dollars to keep sensitive information from being uploaded to the dark web, officials said.
The ransom payment of $547,045 will keep “identifiable information” from being published online in places where “other threat actors could potentially access and misuse this data,” the district said in a statement posted to social media Wednesday.
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Andres Picon is a Hearst Fellow currently working with the education team in San Antonio. He worked at The Boston Globe as a student co-op, writing news and feature stories for six months, before moving on as a research assistant with the Globe's Spotlight team. His family is originally from Venezuela, where he lived until he was 5 years old. Spanish was his first language and he still speaks it fluently.
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