ANOTHER ARTICLE: HACKERS HIT YORKTOWN & CROTON HARMON SCHOOL DISTRICTS

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ANOTHER ARTICLE: HACKERS HIT YORKTOWN & CROTON HARMON SCHOOL DISTRICTS--YONKERS TIMES

.....In a message to parents and students, Croton-Harmon Superintendent Deborah O’Connell said the incident was a ransomware attack. This kind of data breach keeps an organization from accessing its data in order to solicit a ransom to get the data back.

O’Connell explained that the district “never considered” paying the ransome, “as [we] were able to restore our systems from previous data backups,” O’Connell said....

WHOLE ARTICLE AT  http://yonkerstimes.com/hackers-hit-yorktown-croton-school-districts/