A confronting Australian breach that puts schools squarely in the firing line. Reynella East College - a public preschool-to-Year-12 school in Adelaide's south with more than 1,900 students - took its computer systems offline for a week after a cyber security breach, and weeks later the ransomware group Interlock dumped what it claims is 610 gigabytes of stolen data on the dark web. It's Interlock's first known attack on an Australian organisation, and a review of the leak reportedly turned up passport scans of international students and staff and lists of passwords stored in plain text. We unpack how schools became fair game, why identity documents and cleartext passwords are the worst possible things to lose, and how to tell what's confirmed from what's just a criminal's claim.

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