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SectionstvFeaturedMore From NBCFollow NBC NewsWayne didn’t know his son’s school district had been hacked — its files stolen and computers locked up and held for ransom — until last fall when the hackers started emailing him directly with garbled threats.“we hold control on the network several months, so we had a ton of time to carefully study, exfiltrate the data and prepare attack,” one of the three emails he received said. “That’s the upsetting part, is that they could have told us from the start ‘We were hacked, lock your data down.’ They didn’t do that.”Such calls and emails from hackers can be an unnerving experience for regular people, said Kurtis Minder, the CEO of cybersecurity company GroupSense, which had several companies receive such calls last year.“You’ve got to put yourself in the shoes of a normal citizen when you get a call like that from some foreign hacker,” he said.
As said here by Kevin Collier