WAVY reports: Unknown users are entering Chesterfield County Public School virtual classrooms – a trend concerning parents as the school year is barely underway. 8News spoke with the parent of a freshman at Thomas Dale High School who recorded an incident involving an anonymous user in his virtual math class. Nicole Martin says the unidentified…
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IA: Fort Dodge Community School District to reopen after cyberattack
KCCI reports: The Fort Dodge Community School District will be back in session Friday after a cyberattack forced the closure of the school Thursday. Superintendent Jesse Ulrich confirmed that the district experienced a cyberattack Wednesday. Ulrich said the attack compromised its phones and internet. The problem has since been resolved. Read more on KCCI. It is…
Trinity Area School District, police investigating after security breaches during virtual classrooms
Lauren Lee reports: Trinity Area School District reported a security breach in a fifth-grade cyberclassroom at Trinity West Elementary on Wednesday, according to a letter by the district’s superintendent that was obtained by Post-Gazette news partner KDKA-TV. Superintendent Michael P. Lucas said the “hacker” accessed the virtual classroom and was “able to introduce offensive racial and other inappropriate comments.”…
Hackers shutdown first day of Toledo Public Schools’ online classes
Melissa Voetsch reports: Toledo Public Schools experienced a computer hacking on its first day of online learning. According to district administrators, the day started well with students and staff signing on, but around noon, they received word that the system had been hacked. The district immediately shut down its system and brought in the FBI…
SC: Pickens County School District internet outage caused by cyberattack, district says
Stephanie Towers reports: An Upstate school district dealt with an internet outage Tuesday morning. The Pickens County School District said the outages on school and student devices were caused by a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) attack on servers tasked with running Pickens County School District Online Services. “I want to be clear it wasn’t a DDOS…
Hartford delays first day of school due to ransomware virus
Audrey Conklin reports: Hartford, Conn., public schools postponed the first day of classes Tuesday after a citywide ransomware attack. The malicious attack infiltrated Hartford Public Schools’ critical systems, and those systems could not be completely restored in time for classes to begin on Tuesday. “We have been informed by Metro Hartford Information Services (MHIS), our…