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Newton County Schools cyber incident disrupts district systems

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Newton County Schools took affected systems offline after detecting unauthorized network activity, disrupting phones, email and other network services around the start of classes. The district reported continuing restoration work August 4 and said August 6 that network services had been restored, although technicians were still validating and fine-tuning remaining systems and applications.

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