The Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance said an incident disrupted the agency’s information technology systems Oct. 2, prompting warnings of possible delays for TOPS scholarships and START 529
Editor’s Note (Updated: Dec. 18, 2025): This story was updated to reflect later reporting that the incident escalated beyond an initial outage into a data-theft extortion case, plus the
On October 7, 2024, the Vermilion Parish School System (VPSS) in Abbeville, Louisiana, was forced to take all its networks and internet services offline following a suspected cyberattack. The system-wide
