{"id":16831,"date":"2023-02-01T17:32:01","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/ransomware-leads-to-nantucket-public-schools-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T16:32:01","slug":"ransomware-leads-to-nantucket-public-schools-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/ransomware-leads-to-nantucket-public-schools-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Leads to Nantucket Public Schools Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the second day in a row, public schools on the tiny island of Nantucket remained closed Wednesday as administrators scrambled to cope with a ransomware attack on its computer systems.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to published reports, Nantucket\u2019s five public schools shut its doors to students and teachers after a data encryption and extortion attack prompted staff to shut down the internet along with all student and staff devices \u2014 including phones and security cameras.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of an abundance of caution, we will be canceling school tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 1, for all staff and students,\u201d school superintendent Beth Hallett wrote in a message to the school community.<\/p>\n<p>The schools were first closed on Tuesday morning and all 1,700 students and staff were sent home \u201cfor the safety and security of all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hallett said the school district has hired outside data security experts to work alongside its IT department to recover data and restore computer and internet service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is no information on whether a ransom payment was paid or the extent of damage from data encryption or data theft.<\/p>\n<p>Education institutions have become a popular target for ransomware attacks with multiple schools reporting malware infections that lead to data being encrypted and costly ransom demands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/ransomware-attack-hits-school-district-twice-4-months\/\">Ransomware Attack Hits School District Twice in 4 Months<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/arizona-schools-provide-model-managing-ransomware\/\">Arizona Schools Provide Model for Managing Ransomware<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/ransomware-hit-200-us-gov-education-and-healthcare-organizations-2022\/\">Ransomware Hit 200 US Gov, Education and Healthcare Orgs in 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/clark-county-schools-reports-computer-ransomware-attack\/\">Clark County Schools Reports Computer Ransomware Attack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/ransomware-leads-to-nantucket-public-schools-shutdown\/\">Ransomware Leads to Nantucket Public Schools Shutdown<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/\">SecurityWeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second day in a row, public schools on the tiny island of Nantucket remained closed Wednesday as administrators scrambled to cope with a ransomware attack on its computer systems. According to published reports, Nantucket\u2019s five public schools shut its doors to students and teachers after a data encryption and extortion attack prompted staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-encryption","category-ransomware"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.show.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}