Iowa's largest school district has canceled classes for a second day due to an apparent cyberattack on its computer system
cyberattack on Iowa's largest school district
has led officials to cancel classes for 30,000 students for a second day as technicians scramble to protect data and restore the computer system, the district's leader said Tuesday afternoon. The Des Moines school district's interim superintendent, Matt Smith, said officials received an alert Monday about a possible “cybersecurity event” that led them to cancel classes Tuesday and then to keep schools closed Wednesday. It wasn't clear if schools will be able to reopen Thursday or Friday, he said during a news conference.
“When our system is down, it impacts every aspect of our organization," Smith said, noting everything from school bus routes to lunch menus are controlled through the computer system.“It was a cybersecurity event that we can't confirm yet until we run through all of our diagnostics and all of our protocols to get the forensics back to understand that specifically," Smith said. “What I can tell you is we are operating as if it is a ransomware attack just to be sure.
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