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good evening thanks so much for joining
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us first tonight new investigative
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reporting shows how little Minneapolis
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public school officials shared with
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parents and families after a data breach
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that breach happened two years ago today
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when the district alerted people about
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an encryption event that would paralyze
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its computer system it turned out
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hackers demanded a ransom and eventually
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posted sensitive data about students and
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teachers online the district was heavily
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criticized for how it disclosed the
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Cyber attack Jennifer Hoff is here with
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more on what she's learning tonight
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Jennifer Julie experts say schools want
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to reduce liability and will often turn
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to insurance providers and lawyers first
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who advise sharing the least amount of
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information possible and that's what
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those new documents show is exactly what
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MPS two years ago Minneapolis public
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schools was the victim of a Cyber attack
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the district accused of downplaying what
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happened when experts say a cyber gang
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called Medusa demanded a million dooll
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Ransom and released sensitive
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information when the district didn't pay
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it it's a complicated issue keep in mind
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that the school districts are victims
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too Mark kyber is an investigative
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reporter spending 18 months looking into
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what exactly happened at MPS public
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records request revealing the district
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first contacted its insurance provider
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cyber security lawyers to negotiate with
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the hackers and even the FBI their
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primary purpose is to conceal
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information and we're going to protect
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our client the school district from
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liability in this case you know by
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keeping information out of the hands of
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parents what could Minneapolis public
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schools have done better looking at how
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they reported the incident to the public
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and how they reported that incident to
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the FBI tell two different stories that
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Balancing Act is very real KY lever says
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it took s months then for the district
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to alert the more than a 100,000 people
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hackers in fact access their data a
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problem experts say is growing reporting
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each colored dot on this map is an
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incident it is actually shockingly uh
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common Doug LaVine leads the nation's
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only nonprofit helping schools
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advocating for a nationwide cyber
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security standards practice and federal
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funds to implement it the way this gets
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better is uh maybe counter
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counterintuitively to to to what we've
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seen in this example is is by talking
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uh more and sharing more about what
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happened the district also responded
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tonight in an email saying it followed
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all relevant laws notifying impacted
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people when it was able it also wrote
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disclosing its cyber security plans
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makes us more vulnerable to Future
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attacks and it's doing Julie all that it
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can to prioritize safety all right thank
