School cybersecurity
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I'm not familiar with the website, but it says the story was written in conjunction with Wired, so I feel pretty comfortable posting it....
Schools have faced an onslaught of cyberattacks since the pandemic disrupted education nationwide five years ago, yet district leaders across the country have employed a pervasive pattern of obfuscation that leaves the real victims in the dark, an investigation by The 74 shows.
An in-depth analysis chronicling more than 300 school cyberattacks over the past five years reveals the degree to which school leaders in virtually every state repeatedly provide false assurances to students, parents and staff about the security of their sensitive information. At the same time, consultants and lawyers steer “privileged investigations”, which keep key details hidden from the public.
In more than two dozen cases, educators were forced to backtrack months — and in some cases more than a year — later after telling their communities that sensitive information, which included, in part, special education accommodations, mental health challenges and student sexual misconduct reports, had not been exposed. While many school officials offered evasive storylines, others refused to acknowledge basic details about cyberattacks and their effects on individuals, even after the hackers made student and teacher information public.
https://www.the74million.org/article/kept-in-the-dark/?user_id=66c4c06e5d78644b3aab4472
