Cloquet school district was targeted in a ransomware attack second time in the past three years.
The attacker encrypted files available on all the servers except one, including the network shared drives.
However, the attack does not indicate the stealing of any information but only the encryption of the files, so that the users were not able to open them.
Source: https://www.databreaches.net/cloquet-school-district-again-targeted-by-a-ransomware-attack/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/cloquet-public-school-district
"id": "clo21191122",
"linkid": "cloquet-public-school-district",
"type": "Ransomware",
"date": "08/2018",
"severity": "75",
"impact": "2",
"explanation": "Attack limited on finance or reputation"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Education',
'location': 'Cloquet, MN, USA',
'name': 'Cloquet School District',
'type': 'Educational Institution'}],
'attack_vector': 'Encryption of files on servers and network shared drives',
'description': 'Cloquet school district was targeted in a ransomware attack '
'for the second time in the past three years. The attacker '
'encrypted files available on all the servers except one, '
'including the network shared drives. However, the attack does '
'not indicate the stealing of any information but only the '
'encryption of the files, so that the users were not able to '
'open them.',
'impact': {'systems_affected': ['All servers except one',
'Network shared drives']},
'motivation': 'File encryption for ransom',
'ransomware': {'data_encryption': 'Files on all servers except one, including '
'network shared drives',
'data_exfiltration': 'No'},
'title': 'Cloquet School District Ransomware Attack',
'type': 'Ransomware'}