Huntsville City Schools says student information not compromised in cyber security attack

Huntsville City Schools says student information not compromised in cyber security attack

New details on the huntsville city schools ransomwarecyb er security attack.

A short time ago school leaders revealed new findings about the attack's impact on student information.

Waay-31's bridget divers is live at hunstville city schools with the new developments..

Huntsville city schools reported that the third-party systems that hold student information were not compromised during the attack.

And at this time, it does not appear that chromebooks, used by students in k through eight, were impacted.

The school systems' main area of focus is on windows devices.

And those are used by high school students and teachers.

The schools will be collecting high school students' windows devices.

And providing teachers with new computers.

We'll be working to re-issue those high school student devices as quickly as possible and those plans will be communicated by each school."

At this time the district doesn't have a specifc timeline for when students will be back to using their computers instead of pen and paper, but they're working to get students back online as soon as possible.

Live in huntsville, bridget divers, waay-31 news.

The school system still doesn't want anyone to log on to their school accounts as they continue to