Executive Summary

The Slate Valley Unified School District in Fair Haven, Vermont, declined to pay a ransom demanded by the Kairos threat actors. The district reported no evidence of student data compromise, but Kairos threatened to leak data. The incident began on September 3, and Kairos contacted DataBreaches on October 2 to inform them of the situation.

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Intelligence Metadata - Source Publisher: DataBreaches.net - Published Date: 2026-10-04T19:12:54+00:00 - Category: data-breaches

Original Description: The Slate Valley Unified School District in Fair Haven, Vermont, has been responding to a security incident since September 3. On October 2, Kairos threat actors contacted DataBreaches to alert us to the incident and their response to the district’s claim that they believed student data had not been compromised. They were also angry that... Source

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