One reason school cyberattacks are on the rise? Schools are easy targets for hackers

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Scott Elder has a pretty typical morning routine. He wakes up at 7 a.m., drinks coffee and feeds the dogs, Bella (a rat terrier) and Spencer (a Chihuahua). But on Jan. 12, 2022, Elder’s routine was interrupted by a concerning phone call.

Elder is the superintendent of Albuquerque Public Schools in New Mexico, and the call came from his district’s IT department, saying they had found some sort of computer virus.

He recalls thinking, “Oh, we’ve got a bug in the system and they found it so they’ll just kill

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