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Newfound school district still working to recover data after cyber attack

Posted on December 15, 2023 by Dissent

Thomas P. Caldwell reports:

Newfound Area School District is recovering from a Nov. 15 cyber breach, described as a ransomware attack because it locked users out, although the unknown hacker did not make a financial demand.

Jason Sgro, a senior partner at the Atom Group, the cyber response company based in Portsmouth working to restore the computer network, told members of the school board that most functions, including printing, should be restored by Dec. 15. He said the timeline for restoring financial data at the central office “is definitely still in question. That will be a massive effort.”

[…]

The ransomware entered the system through a laptop and infected the computers at five schools and the central office.

Read more at The Laconia Daily Sun.

h/t, Doug Levin

Category: Education SectorMalwareU.S.

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