List of 2020 cyberattacks on U.S. schools
List of cyberattacks on schools From 2016 to 2019 there have been 855 cyberattacks on U.S. School districts. Microsoft Security Intelligence has said there are more attacks on schools and school districts than any other industry. There were 348 reported cyberattacks on school districts in 2019. School districts are allocating millions of dollars for their computer systems to support virtual learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Miami-Dade Public Schools invested in a $15.3 million online learning system. In 2020 their system was hacked with a Denial of Service  Cyber attack. The two main types of cyberattacks on schools are Distributed denial of service DDoS - an attack which overwhelms the targets internet bandwidth, and Ransomware - where the hacker takes control of the target's computer system and demands money. In 2020 because of reliance on distance learning, schools braced for cyberattacks. The average cost for organizations that do not pay the ransomware demands was $730,000. Legislation. U.S. Representative Josh Harder introduced a bill in congress entitled: Protecting Students from Cybercrimes Act. The bill's goal is to give schools $25 million in grants to implement cyber security . In 2019 U.S. Senators Gary Peters and Rick Scott also authored a bill to safeguard school computer systems. The bill is called The K-12 Cybersecurity Act. M. Madison Public Schools (Connecticut) Zoombombing attack