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MT: Hackers hit Forsyth schools server, cause disruptions

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Dissent

Ed Kemmick reports:

Forsyth Public Schools were hit with computer malware over the weekend, causing problems for teachers, students, parents and district administrators.

The good news, Superintendent Dinny Bennett said, is that whoever did the damage “did not hack our system to take information, just to corrupt it.”

The software program that ran the student management system has been restored and no student data were lost, Bennett said.

Read more on Last Best News.


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