The district has not said when the systems will be restored or whether data has been compromised.
Four days into a sweeping systems outage that has disrupted student learning and forced teachers to remake their lessons, the Sweetwater Union High School District still hasn’t said when it expects to be back online, or what caused the outage.
The district, which serves about 36,000 middle and high school students in South County, wouldn’t say whether there had been a cybersecurity breach. It has released few details about what happened and has not said when the systems will be restored or whether people’s data has been compromised. The outage was discovered Sunday in the district’s Microsoft systems, including Outlook, according to the Sweetwater teachers union. The following day, the district’s internet and student information system, Infinite Campus, were shut down in the afternoon “to ensure that no other systems could be affected,” the union said in an email to members on Wednesday.
Sweetwater is conducting a forensic investigation. If any data breach occurred, the district said it will tell those who were affected and offer monitoring services, the union said. “We want our students and the SUHSD community to know that we place a high value on maintaining the integrity and security of the data we hold in our systems,” the district said in a statement.
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