{"id":40328,"date":"2021-04-07T14:23:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T11:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40328"},"modified":"2025-08-30T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T10:40:33","slug":"hackers-demand-40-million-in-cryptocurrency-from-a-u-s-school-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/hackers-demand-40-million-in-cryptocurrency-from-a-u-s-school-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers demand $40 million in cryptocurrency from a U.S. school district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Broward County Public Schools\u2019 computer systems in Florida were hit by the Conti ransomware. For decrypting the data and to prevent publication of stolen personal information, the attackers demanded a cryptocurrency ransom.<\/p>\n<p>The malware struck the systems in early March, Infosecurity reports.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the hackers demanded a ransom of $15 million. After two weeks of negotiations, district officials offered to pay the attackers $500,000, but the latter did not agree and ceased communication with the victims.<\/p>\n<p>It has since emerged that the Conti operators are seeking a $40 million ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the district said they did not pay the ransom and have no evidence that the hackers gained access to any personal data.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the REvil ransomware group encrypted the files of the Taiwanese company Acer and demanded payment of <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ransomware-group-revil-demanded-50-million-in-monero-from-acer\">$50 million in Monero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Broward County Public Schools\u2019 computer systems in Florida were hit by the Conti ransomware. For decrypting the data and to prevent publication of stolen personal information, the attackers demanded a cryptocurrency ransom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154],"class_list":["post-40328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40330,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328\/revisions\/40330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}