Ransomware attacks on secondary schools in England

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Dear Ivybridge Community College, Ivybridge,

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

Mel Vincent, Ivybridge Community College, Ivybridge

Dear Sir/Madam

 

I am writing following your freedom of information request in which we can
confirm that Ivybridge Community College has to date, no information to
share with you.  There have been no incidents of this nature.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Melanie Vincent

PA to the Principal

 

Ivybridge Community College

Harford Road

Ivybridge

Devon

PL21 0JA

 

Tel:  01752 691000

 

Part of Westcountry Schools Trust

 

 

 

 

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Good morning,

Thank you for confirming that for me.

Kind regards,
Rebecca