Midlands school officials were told to pay foreign hackers a ransom after a cyberattack knocked out their computer systems and compromised some students’ data.
Lexington-Richland 5 declined to pay, Superintendent Akil Ross told a virtual town hall for district parents on Tuesday. A former FBI agent and cybersecurity expert who took part in the town hall said that was the right call.
“I tell my clients not to pay,” Jack Jupin told listeners. “Because if you pay, it just perpetuates the problem. Now they wait six months and do it again, because maybe you’ll pay the second time.”…