🔴 VERMONT SCHOOL DISTRICT HIT BY RANSOMWARE — BOARD REFUSES TO PAY, KAIROS THREATENS LEAK

Slate Valley Unified Union School District (Fair Haven, Vermont) has confirmed a cyberattack that began Sept 3, knocking out internet, email and internal systems for about a week.

According to the district:

• It received a ransom demand (reported as hundreds of thousands of dollars)
• Its school board voted Sept 28 not to pay
• The FBI is investigating and advised against paying
• Current and former teachers' personal information was compromised, and staff have been notified

The Kairos ransomware group has since claimed the attack. Kairos claims:

• About 762 GB of stolen data, including SQL databases with student and employee personal and medical information
• Data on more than 1,500 employees, including SSNs and home addresses
• It will leak the data