Medusa demanding $1M ransom from Minneapolis Public Schools

 

The Medusa hacker group is demanding a $1M ransom from the Minneapolis Public Schools to delete the data it stole.  The threat actor has posted a video as proof. MPS is a public school district in Minnesota and has around 36,370 students that study in about 100 public primary and secondary schools. The school district has stated that it does not plan to pay the ransom. MPS stated that there is no proof any personal data has been affected and that it has used internal backup tools to return the data. The organization warned its students and staff to be careful of phishing attacks and scamming campaigns that may target them in the following weeks.