Last month, a school district in Illinois was targeted in a ransomware attack that held its systems hostage. The criminals threatened to release the information on the dark web if it didn’t receive payment within a week. So far, there is nothing spectacular about this story. It’s standard operating procedure for ransomware gangs, who break into organisations, encrypt their data and demand payment – typically in bitcoin – in exchange for a decryption key. There are hundreds of these incidents each year, with the ransomware industry reportedly worth more than £363 million in 2022. Schools are among the most frequently

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