Jordan Shearer reports:
Rochester Public Schools has clarified what it believes opened the door to the large-scale cyberattack that crippled the district’s operations this spring.
Superintendent Kent Pekel spoke about the issue on Wednesday, Aug. 23, while giving a presentation about the district’s upcoming technology referendum in November.
“We weren’t negligent,” Pekel said. “But clearly one of two things happened.”
Pekel went on to say that someone either clicked on a link they shouldn’t have. Or, they used the same password for a district account that they also used for some other account, such as one for social media.
Read more at Post Bulletin.
h/t, Doug Levin