NB School Was Target of a Cyber Security Breach

By Thomas Schmitt

It was revealed at the Northern Bedford County School District August Board of Directors meeting that the district had a computer security incident in which they were the target of a cyber breach and ransomware infection by a highly sophisticated cyber-criminal group.

The district believes the threat came through a virtual private network. The school installed a new state-of-the-art firewall, reconfigured servers, and recreated user accounts, and all staff and student passwords were reset.

The district security budget was tripled. There was a review of the Health and Safety P...