Who Got Hacked This Week? May 4 Edition

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Leominster School District Pays $10,000 Bitcoin Ransom

A Massachusetts school district is waiting for its computer system to be “unlocked” after it paid a $10,000 Bitcoin ransom to hackers following a cyberattack on its system.

The police chief said he wasn’t told what types of school district files were locked down. He said this was “straight up decryption” and no data mining. School employees are locked out of their own system.

The school e-mail system is also down, and school employees are using their Gmail accounts as backup to communicate with one another, he said.

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