LA parents sound off after cyberattack leaves students vulnerable

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For Christie Pesicka, the Los Angeles Unified School District cyberattack hits home.

During “The Interview” hack in 2014, Pesicka was one of thousands of Sony Pictures employees that had their private information exposed in the midst of aggressive attacks by a North Korean hacker group.

Now, as a mom, Pesicka worries about protecting her son Jackson, a 1st grade Playa Vista Elementary School student, so history doesn’t repeat itself.

“When you’re a kid, you won’t ever see a credit report and find out that there’s something on there until you go off to college,” Pesicka said in an interview.

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