City of Hartford Postpones First Day of School After Ransomware Attack

Officials from the city of Hartford, Connecticut, were forced to postpone the first day of the new school calendar year after a ransomware infection impacted the city's IT network. From a report: According to a statement published by Hartford Public Schools, the school district serving the city of Hartford, the ransomware attack impacted several of the school's internal IT systems, causing a prolonged outage. IT staff have been working to restore services, but these were not completed in time for the first day of the new school year, scheduled for today, Sept. 8. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, in-person schooling has been suspended since the spring. In the city of Hartford, today marked not only the first day of the new 2020 school year but also the first day of in-person attendance in months. According to the district's school re-opening plan, today, PreK-Grade 2, Grade 6, and Grade 9 students were supposed to have the first school classes in months.

Chaotic good.

[LenKagetsu]

Keeping schools closed is paramount to stemming the tide of this disea-AHAHAHAHAHA WHO AM I KIDDING AMERICA IS FUCKED

Fire drills

[algaeman]

Remember back when kids would just call in fire drills to get out of exams? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Re: Fire drills

[e3m4n]

Its not a drill when the kid calls them in. Either A) a fire switch was pulled or B) a student called in a bomb threat.

We had a kid that did that 6 times in 2 weeks. He kept waking up late for school and figured it would keep him from truancy court again. Yeah. He was that dumb. The year was 1986.

and some kids know where the write the password do

[Joe_Dragon]

and some kids know where the write the password down and just change there grades.

Re:

[tlhIngan]

Remember back when kids would just call in fire drills to get out of exams? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Still happens. I can only imagine what the firefighters think. The campus stays quiet for the semester, then comes exam time and it's like a California style wildfire has swept the entire campus and everything is burning to the ground.

The university I went to had an on-campus fire department. I'm guessing they had to sweep every building multiple times a day to ensure it was really a false alarm.

That's nothing

[jabuzz]

You should take a look at Newcastle and Northumbria universities in the UK. In fact I am slightly surprised I have not seen it on Slashdot yet.

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/itservice/latest-news/
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/update-on-it-incident

For Newcastle it would appear that the DoppelPaymer are holding them to ransom, though in their tweet they seem to think Newcastle is two words.

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