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The leaked files include detailed dossiers linking children by name, birth date, and address to a laundry list of highly private information: their special needs, their psychological profiles and behavioral analyses, their medications, the results of intelligence tests, and which kids' parents have divorced, among many other sensitive secrets. In some cases, the files even note which children have been victims of alleged abuse by school teachers or staff.
The Minneapolis school system is offering free credit monitoring to parents and children affected by the data dump. But given the radioactive nature of the personal information released by the hackers, identity fraud may be the least of their victims' worries.
Hartman named the Iranian hackers as a group known as Pioneer Kitten, also sometimes referred to as UNC757 or Parisite, but didn't name the specific elections website that they targeted. Hartman added that the hacking operation was found thanks to Cyber Command's Hunt Forward operations, in which it hacks foreign networks to preemptively discover and disrupt adversaries who target the US.
A tipster tells TechCrunch that the hackers have access to a part of AT&T's internal network that allows them to generate "mail keys" that are used to offer access to an email inbox via email applications like Thunderbird or Outlook.
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