Baltimore City Public Schools reported thousands of employees and students of a data violation after an incident in February when unknown assailants hacked their networks.
Established in 1829, Public School provides primary and secondary education to 76,841 students nominated through 164 schools and programs.
“On February 13, 2025, Baltimore City Public Schools experienced a cyber security incident affecting some IT systems within our network. We immediately informed the law enforcement, made an initial investigation, and took steps to confirm the safety of our system,” City schools said In a Tuesday notification.
“After intensive examination with law enforcement and guidance of external cyber security experts, we have confirmed that some documents can be compromised by criminal actors, including some current and information related to former employees, volunteers and contractors, as well as files related to 1.5% of our student population.”
Even though the exact number of students affected by this violation was not shared, but based on the current student enrollment number, the attackers gained access to sensitive data related to about 1,150 students, according to the school district estimates. Also, Maryland Office of Attorney General Baltimore sun confirmed This violation affects more than 31,000 individuals.
During the violation, the danger actors can steal folders, files or records with passport numbers related to social security numbers, driver’s license number, or current and former employees, volunteers and contractors. Files exposed during the event may also contain a combination of students data, call log, absence records, or currently nominated students.
Breach is connected to Kloca Rainmware
While the school district did not connect the attack to a specific danger group or cyber crime operation, Wbaltv report It was added to the cloak ransomware. This ransomware operation Steaded at the end of 2022 And since then more than 130 victims have claimed, most of them are small for small-medium-sized businesses.
Baltimore City Public School now provides grantful credit monitoring services to the affected people and urges affected individuals to review personal account details and monitor the credit report Stop identity theft attempts,
In November 2020, Baltimore County Public School, a Maryland School District, which manages all public schools in Baltimore County, Maryland, also revealed a data breech after a ransomware attack, which forced it to close its network due to the number of affected systems.
A year ago, in May 2019, a Robinhood Rancemware Attack Encrupt the government server in the Baltimore City Hall. Another ransomware event Baltimore City’s emergency call system affected In March 2018, forcing employees to switch on manual operations to handle all upcoming emergency calls.
