RUTHERFORD COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) -- On Wednesday afternoon, members of a hacker group worked to prove it did have sensitive information from Rutherford County Schools (RCS).

Hackers posted a photo on the dark web that appeared to show staff members' personal information two weeks after the district announced a "network interruption."

"There are individuals who will want to use it to simply do traditional identity theft," vice president of strategy & innovation at NuHarbor Security, Jack Danahy, said. "There are other individuals who will use it for social engineering, perhaps to find these people and get into the way in which they deal with other people [and] establish relationships of trust."

News 2 spoke with one teacher whose passport showed up on the dark web. She said the director of schools called her personally to let her know, and she was happy with the district's response.

Despite hackers' seven-day countdown to sell the data, school board member Butch Vaughn tells News 2 paying the 20 Bitcoin ransom is "off the table."

"It's a really very personal question for the organization involved," Danahy added. "Now clearly, they've done a lot of investment to be able to recover as quickly as they have. Now the question is: how valuable is the information that's been stolen? We have very little insight into it."

A district spokesperson said the hack has only involved a small group of employees, and to the knowledge of RCS, did not impact parent or student information.

"The one recommendation I would make is a real demand for transparency from the schools -- to understand for certain how do they know what information was actually taken," Danahy said. "How do they know whether or not the student's information is at risk?"

If your information is posted online, the Better Business Bureau urges you report it to their scam tracker and to the Federal Trade Commission. They also recommend checking and freezing your credit and resetting all passwords -- but be weary of security questions.

"Things like: what was your favorite car when you were a teenager? Or what was the color of your first prom dress? Or whatever the case may be where you don't realize you're giving a lot of information out that scammers can use to breach passwords," Robyn Householder, President & CEO of the BBB of Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky, said.

Householder recommended students and teachers use malware protection software on all devices. Further, they should use passwords at least 14 characters long and those should be changed very one to two months.