Security News > 2022 > January > FinalSite ransomware attack shuts down thousands of school websites
FinalSite, a leading school website services provider, has suffered a ransomware attack disrupting access to websites for thousands of schools worldwide.
FinalSite is a software as a service provider that offers website design, hosting, and content management solutions for K-12 school districts and universities.
On Tuesday, school districts that hosted their websites with FinalSite found that they were no longer reachable or were displaying errors.
After three days of disruption, FinalSite confirmed today that a ransomware attack on their network is causing the outages.
In a template created by FinalSite that schools can send to parents, there is no mention of the ransomware attack, and just that FinalSite is experiencing a "Disruption of certain computer systems on its network."
It is not known what ransomware gang conducted the attack on FinalSite and whether data was stolen as part of the attack.
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