Security News > 2020 > January > Ransomware pounces on California schools, Las Vegas trounces attack
First, the bad: over the holiday break, crooks who are so morally bankrupt that they target the organizations that serve children pounced on schools in the US city of Pittsburg, California.
On Monday, the superintendent of Pittsburg Unified School District, Janet Schulze, put up a message about the ransomware attack on the district's Facebook page.
Cut off from the internet and email, the district's secondary schools were given an extension - until Monday 13 January - to enter first-semester grades into the grading system.
It doesn't look like any data was lost, nor had any personal data been compromised, Las Vegas City said.
Las Vegas City spokesman David Riggleman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that attacks on several other cities in recent years have made city officials particularly vigilant.
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