Security News > 2023 > March > Ransomware gang posts video of data stolen from Minneapolis schools
The Medusa ransomware gang is demanding a $1,000,000 ransom from the Minneapolis Public Schools district to delete data allegedly stolen in a ransomware attack.
Yesterday, Medusa listed MPS as a victim on its Tor data leak site, threatening to publish all data it allegedly stole from the public school district by March 17, 2023.
The threat actors demand a payment of $1 million to delete all data while they accept an equal amount to give that data to interested buyers.
This extortion attempt stands out because the threat actors created a video showing all of the data allegedly stolen from the Minneapolis Public Schools district.
The education organization said it was not planning to pay the threat actors a ransom and instead opted to restore the data encrypted by the ransomware actors using internal backups.
"MPS has not paid a ransom and the investigation has not found any evidence that any data accessed has been used to commit fraud," reads the MPS systems outage notice.