​Since 2018, Comparitech recorded 491 ransomware attacks on US schools and colleges that breached more than 6.7 million individual records. We estimate that these attacks cost education institutions over $2.5 billion in downtime alone. Most schools faced astronomical recovery costs as they tried to restore computers, recover data, and shore up their systems to prevent … Continue reading On average, US schools & colleges lose $500K per day to downtime from ransomware attacks