2,000 ‘Sensitive’ Student Records Compromised in Los Angeles Unified Cyberattack

A school administrator confirms student health check data on a laptop computer as students and parents wait in line to enter school at Grant Elementary School in Los Angeles on Aug. 16, 2021. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

The cyberattack that hit the Los Angeles Unified School District last September was worse than initially reported—with hackers accessing about 2,000 sensitive student records, district officials confirmed Feb. 24 to The Epoch Times.

A ransomware group stole a portion of the district’s records and threatened to publish the information if it did not pay a ransom. When Superintendent Alberto Carvalho refused, the group published the data online weeks later.