Ransomware operators compromised the New Kent County Public Schools system in the State of Virginia this week, holding students’ data ransom, in the latest of a long string of cyber-attacks targeting school systems across the United States.
The school district’s superintendent, Brian J. Nichols, said in a message to families Tuesday that files on the district’s internal systems were encrypted in a ransomware attack, causing “an undue burden as we work to start school on time and ready for our students to learn.”
