The article investigates how school district leaders obscure the truth about cyberattacks, leaving victims unaware of data breaches impacting sensitive information. Over the past five years, more than 300 incidents were analyzed, revealing patterns of false assurances about data security. Instead of prioritizing transparency, schools often inform insurance companies and legal counsel first, focusing on protecting themselves from potential lawsuits. This lack of communication has resulted in delayed acknowledgments of data exposure, causing further mistrust within school communities and harming those directly affected by cyberattacks.
In more than two dozen cases, educators were forced to backtrack months - and in some cases more than a year - later after telling their communities that sensitive information... had not been exposed.
District incident response plans place insurance companies and their phalanxes of privacy lawyers first. They take over the response, with a focus on limiting schools' exposure to lawsuits.
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