On Wednesday, nearly 10 hours after the school district confirmed the ransomware attack on Twitter, the F.B.I. Hyatt of the Baltimore County Police Department declined to provide details of the investigation but said local, state and federal authorities were helping. “It’s that loss of resiliency which Covid has brought to light.”Īt the news conference last week, Chief Melissa R. “Since the pandemic, when a school district experiences any incident, learning stops,” Mr. He cautioned that the data might not include every attack, as there is no uniform standard for how school districts report cybersecurity incidents. Schools are storing more data online without sophisticated plans for safeguarding it, and are susceptible to public pressure when that data is compromised, said Reuven Aronashvili, the founder and chief executive of CYE, a cybersecurity firm.ĭoug Levin, the center’s founder, said he expected 2020 to end with roughly the same number of ransomware incidents as 2019. The digital infrastructure that makes remote learning possible is now increasingly seen as a target for cyberattacks. The coronavirus, which can spread easily when people gather closely indoors, thrust students and educators into remote learning with little time to prepare. Afterward, the district said it expected to offer a “hybrid” plan that included in-person instruction for “targeted students” a few days a week “on a rotating basis.” The district would also allow students to continue learning remotely full time if they preferred.
The Baltimore County district began the 2020-21 school year with all of its students learning remotely - a period of “virtual instruction” that the district said would continue until at least January. Causey, chair of the Baltimore County Board of Education, said the situation was “very disturbing.” Students, she added, were “relying on us to provide education and other opportunities.” Officials declined to provide details of the attack, including what demands had been made. “We don’t know, at this point, of a timeline,” Dr. At a news conference on Wednesday afternoon, officials were unable to say when school operations would resume.
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