What could the cyberattack on the Alabama Department of Education have taken? [Video]

A cyberattack on the Alabama State Department of Education is currently under investigation by state officials.”Hackers were unable to fully access the system or lock it,” said State Superintendent Dr. Eric Mackey. He added that some data was breached before their professionals could halt the attack. Cybersecurity experts warned about the types of information hackers could have obtained in the attack, including your:full namephone numberemailaddresssocial security number”They will take this information and potentially sell it to others if there’s value there,” said Marc Sachs, a cybersecurity expert. Sachs also noted that the attack was thwarted just in time. “We certainly don’t want to minimize it, but it’s certainly something you don’t want to lose sleep over. Based on what we can see online and what they’ve talked about publicly, it looks like this was stopped early, and that’s very good,” Sachs said. The state department, federal agencies, and an outside …