Ransomware Attack on Buffalo Public Schools in Buffalo, New York
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic around the world has accelerated an already aggressively expanding technological age that we live in. Almost everything we do from research, official work, financial transactions, to shopping and entertainment, is all dependent on the internet. The sheer indispensability of online software in our daily life today is reason enough for us to refine and enhance our cybersecurity resources. But even with vigilant efforts, unfortunate situations where our systems are breached and our privacy is violated do crop up. Such an attack has happened in the wake of March 2021, where the Buffalo Public Schools in Western New York faced a vicious cyber-attack and had to shut down all school systems to protect their online resources. The Buffalo Schools serve approximately 34,000 students in New York. On March 12, 2021, they faced a ransomware attack on their cyber systems. The attack was such a serious threat that the school’s management immediately decided to shut down all