Study: in 2020, 77 ransomware attacks affected over 1,740 US schools and colleges, potentially impacting 1.36M students and costing ~$6.6B in downtime alone (Paul Bischoff/Comparitech)

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Study: in 2020, 77 ransomware attacks affected over 1,740 US schools and colleges, potentially impacting 1.36M students and costing ~$6.6B in downtime alone  —  In 2020, 77 individual ransomware attacks affected over 1,740 schools and colleges, potentially impacting 1.36 million students.



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