As students head back to school, teachers and administrators in Wolcott, Connecticut will be starting the school year without access to important files.

That’s because the news-cyber-attacks-schools-towns-ransom-20190831-jrkimu7h2fbvneiiungecspq3y-story.html">Wolcott Public School system computers were attacked by ransomware, a type of computer virus that holds essential data hostage unless the school agrees to pay attackers a ransom.

This hour we take a look at why hackers have increasingly been targeting local governments and schools for ransomware attacks. 

And we ask: What does this mean for Connecticut, a state with hundreds of separate municipal governments and school systems?

Plus, we take a look at the issue of releasing school-by-school vaccine data. A Bristol couple has argued in a lawsuit that releasing the information violates their privacy, but the state says it plans to make the data available. We ask a legal expert to weigh in.

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