Ransomware attacks on secondary schools in England
Dear Ilkley Grammar School,
Please find below my FOI request regarding ransomware attacks on the school/college.
1. In the last 5 years, how many times has your school/college suffered from a ransomware attack? Please provide specific dates (months/years) if possible.
2. How much downtime did this cause (in hours)?
3. Did you pay the ransom? If so, how much was the ransom?
4. What type of ransomware was used?
5. What was the total cost of the incident to your school/college?
6. How many student and/or staff records were impacted in the breach?
If you don't have data available for all of the questions, please provide any data you do have.
We appreciate the sensitivity of disclosing ransomware attacks, which is why all of the data gathered will be anonymised in our final analysis and no individual schools or colleges will be mentioned.
Yours faithfully,
Rebecca Moody
Good morning Rebecca,
Thank you for your email and FOI request.
Our Data Protection Officer if Judicium Education and you can find their
link on the Trust and Ilkley Grammar Schools websites under the Data
Protection folder.
Please can you follow the link to register your FOI request with them so
that the process of progressing your FOI request can start.
Many thanks.
Kind regards,
Adele
Adele Wood Associate CIPD
Trust Transition & Compliance Manager
MLT Executive Assistant
Governance Professional to the Trust Board
Moorlands Learning Trust, Cowpasture Road, Ilkley, LS29 8TR
Tel: 01756 702530
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Hi Adele,
Thanks for confirming that for me. I have now submitted this via the FOI link on the website.
Kind regards,
Rebecca
Dear Rebecca Moody,
Thank you for your email of the 19^th of January 2024 where you requested
information about ransomware attacks at the Ilkley Grammar School. We are
reaching out on behalf of the school as their DPO to inform you that they
have now completed their search for the information you requested.
Ilkley Grammar School has not had any ransomware attacks and thus does not
hold any of the data you have requested.
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