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AL: Officials can’t confirm county school system hack isn’t ransomware

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Dissent

Sable Riley reports:

Mystery surrounds the malware attack on Houston County School servers, which officials could not confirm involves ransomware, through which hackers hold data hostage for a demanded ransom.

Superintendent David Sewell said that teachers’ computers may not be available for use by the school start date, which has been delayed to Monday, Aug. 5, four days later than the original Aug. 1 start date.

Read more on Dothan Eagle.

This post was corrected post-publication to reflect that the school district is the one in Alabama, not Georgia. Thanks to Doug Levin for catching the error.

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2 thoughts on “AL: Officials can’t confirm county school system hack isn’t ransomware”

  1. Doug Levin says:
    July 26, 2019 at 5:23 pm

    Think that’s Houston County (AL) schools, not GA: https://www.hcboe.us/

    1. Dissent says:
      July 26, 2019 at 8:29 pm

      You’re absolutely right. Fixed it. Thanks!

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