Lehigh Carbon Community College outage in Pennsylvania points to likely cyber incident
The college has described the problem only as an IT disruption, but a campuswide shutdown and pending password resets suggest a security response.
The college has described the problem only as an IT disruption, but a campuswide shutdown and pending password resets suggest a security response.
Officials warned of an encryption-based “cryptolocker” attack and told staff not to power on devices as the school works to contain damage.
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