The Register reports:
Scotland’s West Lothian Council has confirmed that data was stolen from its education network after the Interlock ransomware group claimed responsibility for the intrusion earlier this month.
The local authority, governing a region bordering Edinburgh, originally said that there was no evidence to suggest that data had been taken when it first disclosed the attack on May 6.
After Interlock posted what it claims is a trove of data belonging to the council this week, the authority confirmed late on Wednesday “that a small percentage of the overall data stored on the education network has been stolen.”
The council acknowledged that the data includes personal and sensitive data.
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