Quote:The Hartford School District in Connecticut has postponed their first day of school as they struggle with getting classroom and transportation systems restored and running after a Labor Day holiday weekend ransomware attack. [...]
In a press conference this morning, Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin stated that the school district's network was breached on Thursday, September 3rd.
The state's capital did not become aware of the attack until Saturday, September 5th, after the hackers deployed ransomware and began encrypting the devices on the district's network.
As this attack affected not only classroom computers but also the system responsible for transportation routes, the school district postponed school opening until they can fully recover their systems.
According to Mayor Bronin, no ransom demand was given, and Hartford has no plans on paying the ransom.
"There was no specific ransom demand. There was language, text that was installed and discovered on many systems, that said this is a ransomware attack and asked that we contact a particular email address. Needless to say that we are not contacting that email address. We will let law enforcement deal with that," Bronin stated in a live press conference this morning. Bronin further stated that they did not believe any data was stolen, but are looking into it further.
"To the best of our knowledge, no data was stolen, although we will continue to do everything we can to say with 100% confidence," Bronin stated.
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