Maraya King reports:
South St. Paul Public Schools alerted families this week to an ongoing technology disruption that is being investigated.
Staff and families were notified Monday of technical difficulties “that may disrupt certain services” like online platforms, emails and other digital services. On Tuesday the district said it had been made aware of “unauthorized activity within our computer network.”
Once the unusual activity was discovered, “We took our systems offline to isolate the issue,” the district said in a note to families Tuesday. “We then engaged a third-party cybersecurity firm to assist us with systems recovery and investigate the cause and scope of the unauthorized activity.”
Read more at Pioneer Press.
Meanwhile, in Canada, School District 67 disclosed personal information may have been compromised in a cyberattack.
While there is a lot of media attention on big ransomware groups such as LockBit and AlphV getting taken down by law enforcement or pulling exit scams, let’s not forget that school districts remain a frequent and all-too-easy target for threat actors.