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Springfield Public Schools Cyber-attack Closes Schools and Leaks Data

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Springfield Public Schools in Massachusetts, United States, suffered an outage of essential operating systems in a cyber-attack and closed schools, affecting about 23,000 students. Access to student medical records and phone and some administrative services were suspended, and a breach of student and staff information was later confirmed. Schools resumed classes and began restoring laptops, and credit monitoring support was expanded as the victims grew to include long-serving employees, retirees and volunteers.

Key facts

Affected organisation
Springfield Public Schools
Incident type
Data breach
Occurred / detected
Not confirmed
Scale of damage
Academic operations affected for about 23,000 students; breach of information on students, staff, retirees and volunteers
Cause / method
Outage of essential operating systems and data breach from a cyber-attack
Location
United States

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Timeline

  1. An outage of essential operating systems closed schools and affected about 23,000 students.
  2. Schools stayed closed through Friday because student medical records could not be accessed.
  3. Students returned to school after the cyber-attack.
  4. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed the data breach, and a breach of student and staff information and possible theft of employees' Social Security numbers came to light.
  5. A phased recovery began, reinstalling systems on thousands of laptops.
  6. Credit monitoring support was expanded after it was confirmed that long-serving employees, retirees and volunteers were affected.

35 related reports

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