Ron Zeitlinger reports: The Hudson County Schools of Technology (HCST) took a trip back in time to the 1980s for a second straight day Tuesday. The internal computer servers at the district, which includes High Tech High School in Secaucus and County Prep and Explore Middle School in Jersey City, remained offline, leading to a…
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Little Rock School Board approves paying ransom
There’s an update to the ransomware incident involving Little Rock schools, and it’s not a happy one. The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that at a school board meeting yesterday, the board authorized paying $250,000 “plus other fees.” The incident was first detected on November 11. A number of issues concerning transparency and compliance with Arkansas…
Little Rock School Board will meet to decide whether to negotiate settlement after data security breach
Cynthia Howell reports: The Little Rock School Board will hold a special meeting at 5:30 p.m. Monday to decide on whether to negotiate a settlement to a “network issue” that was characterized last week as a “data security incident” that likely resulted in unauthorized extraction of district data. The district announced the special meeting Sunday…
‘Cybersecurity incident’ hits San Diego Unified computer network
Not much in the way of details but City News reports: The offices of San Diego Unified School District have experienced a computer-network security breach, SDUSD officials disclosed this week. District Superintendent Lamont Jackson on Thursday sent a letter to his staff and families of students attending SDUSD campuses to apprise them of what he…
Little Rock School District reports data security incident
Little Rock School District has created a web page about a data security incident detected on Nov. 11. They do not call it ransomware and make no mention of any ransom demand. The only thing they seem to be confident of at this point is that at least some data was exfiltrated, but they say…
NJ: Internet issues caused by ‘unauthorized third party’ close South Jersey school
Trish Hartman reports: Classes are cancelled for the third day in a row in a Gloucester County school district due to technical problems caused by an “unauthorized third party,” according to notifications from the district. The Monroe Township School District cancelled classes on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Read more at 6ABC.