Cyber-extortionists pillage Colorado education dept
Data going back as far as nearly 20 years may have been stolen from the Colorado Department of Higher Education after ransomware extortionists breached the government body's IT systems.regarding the snafu, CDHE said it became aware of the intrusion on June 19 and believes the thief or thieves gained access as early as June 11.
The department on Friday said its investigations were ongoing, and said"certain data was copied" from its systems, including names, social security numbers, student identification numbers, and dates of birth. As the probe is ongoing, CDHE told us today it can't share details on the number of individuals affected, though it did publish a list of those potentially impacted, including:Colorado public high school students who attended between 2004 and 2020Residents who participated in the Dependent Tuition Assistance Program between 2009 and 2013Coloradans who received a GED between 2007 and 2011
In response, the US state's officials said they are"reviewing our policies and procedures and are working to implement additional cybersecurity security safeguards to further protect our systems," as well as providing 24 months of credit monitoring through Experian to all those affected.it has regained use of its servers, and is working to restore damaged systems via backups, claiming that normal services have been restored.
Presumably the crooks wanted to swipe the information so that they could demand a payment in exchange for not releasing or selling off that sensitive data, which they may do anyway.
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