{"id":59814,"date":"2018-11-12T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T18:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=59814"},"modified":"2018-11-12T12:57:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T18:57:42","slug":"virginia-school-victim-phishing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/virginia-school-victim-phishing-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia High School Falls Victim to Phishing Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Virginia High School Suffers Outage After Malware Infects Systems<\/h4>\n<p>Grassfield High School located in Chesapeake, Virginia, has suffered a cyber attack, leaving various computers utterly useless.\u00a0\u00a0According<a href=\"https:\/\/wtkr.com\/2018\/11\/08\/chesapeake-public-schools-computer-network-affected-by-malware-from-phishing-emails\/\"> to school officials<\/a>, a staff member clicked on a phishing email which infected their computer, as\u00a0well as others on the network.\u00a0 At this time, the infection is not system-wide but has impacted a few different school divisions.\u00a0 There are also concerns anything connected to the school&#8217;s website could also be infected, including student&#8217;s personal devices.<\/p>\n<p>Any of Grassfield High School&#8217;s classes that rely heavily on computers, like marketing or economics struggled to keep up with the class curriculum.\u00a0 Teachers have also been unable to update student grades during the outage.<\/p>\n<p>The outage has been managed by the school&#8217;s IT department, and they are working diligently to get everything functioning at full capacity.\u00a0 \u00a0In the meantime, school officials have notified the student&#8217;s parents of the incident.\u00a0 An excerpt from the letter they sent home with students last Friday can be found below, provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/wtkr.com\/2018\/11\/08\/chesapeake-public-schools-computer-network-affected-by-malware-from-phishing-emails\/\">WTKR News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We appreciate the flexibility and patience of our staff and students, and the efforts of the IT department who worked tirelessly to contain and eradicate the virus. 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They modified lessons in order to continue to provide quality instruction and remain on track with our pacing guides.<\/p>\n<p>At Grassfield High School, we are committed to the digital safety of our students, faculty, and staff and we will continue to provide high quality instruction despite any technological barriers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia High School Suffers Outage After Malware Infects Systems Grassfield High School located in Chesapeake, Virginia, has suffered a cyber attack, leaving various computers utterly useless.\u00a0\u00a0According to school officials, a staff member clicked on a phishing email which infected their computer, as\u00a0well as others on the network.\u00a0 At this time, the infection is not system-wide 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