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Slate Valley Unified School District voted not to pay ransom demand; Kairos likely to leak data

DataBreaches.net · · International · Data Breaches

The Slate Valley Unified School District in Fair Haven, Vermont, has been responding to a security incident since September 3. On October 2, Kairos threat actors contacted DataBreaches to alert us to the incident and their response to the district’s claim that they believed student data had not been compromised. They were also angry that... Source

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