alt Hacker NewsI have trouble imagining that a ransomware group would care about a regulation like FERPA when they've already done something criminal that would more than enough for prosecution if they got caught.
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SoftTalker • yesterday at 7:56 PM
I didn't mean that the ransomware group would care... but if they got grades, that might command a higher ransom than if they just had names and emails and other non-very-sensitive stuff.
Those laws reduce the value though - "honest" people who are interested in such data won't be interested it from ransomware because they need to have legally obtained data. That is there are a lot of "honest but shady" uses of this data that are stopped by these laws.