Renton School District Victim of Ransomware Attack
Info exposed: Names, Social Security numbers, banking information, dates of birth and health insurance and medical information
Threat actors with the ransomware gang Akira listed the Renton school district on their leak site in August 2023, with a threat to leak 200 gigabytes of stolen records, including medical information.
Information about a cyberattack at the district is limited — aside from data breach notices in several states. In to the Maine attorney general’s office, the district disclosed that it suffered a “hacking” incident. On Aug. 3, the district “experienced a network disruption” that rendered its systems inoperable due to “a sophisticated cyber-attack.” Nearly seven months later, on Feb. 29, 2024, school officials began informing individual victims that their Social Security numbers had been exposed in the breach.
In to the Washington state attorney general’s office, the district acknowledged that 771 state residents had their information stolen, including their names, Social Security numbers, banking information, dates of birth and health insurance and medical information. The total number of affected individuals, according to the disclosure in Maine, was 30,373.
School officials couldn’t be reached for comment.
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