Alabama’s education superintendent says that “some data were breached” during a hacking attempt

Alabama’s education superintendent says that “some data were breached” during a hacking attempt last month at the Alabama State Department of Education. Superintendent Eric Mackey on Wednesday said the June

Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala.— Alabama’s education superintendent said Wednesday that some data was “breached” during a hacking attempt at the Alabama State Department of Education.

Mackey said “there is a possibility” that some student and employee data might have been compromised in the attack and urged people to monitor their credit. People are also reading… He said they have brought in a contractor to go “line by line” through state servers to determine what information may have been taken by the hackers. He added that employee bank account and direct deposit information is not at risk because they don’t keep that information on state servers.

Mackey said they believed the hackers were attempting to encrypt data and extort a ransom for its release. He said there is an ongoing federal criminal investigation into the attack since they believed it involved foreign hackers.

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