- May 4, 2019
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A 12,500-student community college in California is suffering from a cyberattack that brought down the school's online services and campus phone lines.
College of the Desert – based in Palm Desert, California – did not respond to questions about whether the incident was a ransomware attack, only calling it a “computer network disruption” in a statement to The Record.
College of the Desert public information officer Nicholas Robles called the incident a “malware attack” in an interview with local newspaper The Desert Sun.
On Twitter and Facebook, the school explained that it is experiencing a systemwide outage of most online services but noted that programs such as Canvas, Adobe, and Microsoft Teams are still available to students.
Cyberattack knocks out California community college email, website, landlines
A 12,500-student community college in California is suffering from a cyberattack that brought down the school’s online services and campus phone lines.
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