New Plymouth School District in Idaho canceled classes at all three schools after detecting a cyber threat in the district’s network Tuesday morning.
“At this time we are not using computers or the district network,” Superintendent Wade Wilson wrote in a notice to teachers, families and students. He asked recipients to delete suspicious emails that appeared to come from the district, its schools or school staff.
Classes are set to resume Monday, Nov. 16, KTVB reported. The elementary school asked students to stay off school accounts and online learning platforms at home.
The high school canceled Thursday’s Veterans Day assembly but said sports practices would continue.
The Payette County district in southwestern Idaho enrolled 864 students last spring, according to the state’s school report card.
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In October, a cyberattack took Jerome School District’s communications and network systems offline in south-central Idaho. Jerome canceled Monday and Tuesday classes.
The district has yet to describe the threat in more detail or say whether anyone accessed student or staff data.
