School districts in Tucson, Arizona, and Nantucket, Massachusetts, are responding to ransomware attacks on their networks this week — with at least one district canceling classes as it mitigates the impact.
obtained by local TV station KOLD News. But it's still unclear who is behind the Nantucket schools attack.
In Nantucket, the district has told staff and students not to use any school-issued devices because "they could compromise home networks," the Nantucket Current also reported. The district has more than 1,700 students. In Tucson, most administrative staff worked from home earlier this week after the attack crashed school WiFi networks,
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