Ransomware at US school pension administrator exposes staff data
A retirement plan administrator for US educational institutions was hit by a ransomware attack that exposed the personal data of staff at multiple schools. Thousands of people were affected, and the data included Social Security numbers and financial information. Skira claimed to have stolen about 469GB of data.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Ransomware
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Personal data, Social Security numbers, financial information and more of thousands of school staff
- Cause / method
- Ransomware attack on a retirement plan administrator
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It was reported that a cyber-attack on a retirement plan administrator had affected thousands of state school employees.
- Staff data leaks at multiple schools and Skira's claim to have stolen about 469GB of data came to light.
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