In better news, 32% of parents who experienced an attack said their child's data was not compromised. Fifteen percent said it happened during the 2020-2021 school year or earlier. Forty-four percent of parents who have experienced an attack said it happened either last summer (2022) or during this school year – which is only partway over – compared to 42% who said it happened last school year (2021-2022) or the previous summer (2021). The rate of attacks on schools may still be rising. Ten percent of parents reporting an attack said the district paid a ransom of more than $1 million up from 3.7% in 2021. This time, that figure rose to 76%, although 14% said their school didn't pay, which was about the same as last time, while a shrinking percentage didn't know. In October 2021, 71% of parents who had experienced an attack said their school paid a ransom. The results are compared to a previous report that posed the same questions to a similar group of parents in October 2021, as well as to an earlier report in June 2021 asking parents more generally about cyberattacks on schools.Īccording to the survey results, a growing number of schools are opting to pay a ransom to their attackers, in order to restore their systems. In October 2022, Kaspersky surveyed 2,000 parents of school-age children in the United States to find out about their experiences with ransomware attacks on schools. Parents reported that the average ransom was $887,360.
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