Grassfield High School suffered a cyber attack, leaving various computers utterly useless.
A staff member clicked on a phishing email which infected their computer, as well as others on the network.
Grassfield High School’s classes that rely heavily on computers, like marketing or economicsand thus struggled to keep up with the class curriculum.
However, the outage was managed by the school’s IT department.
Source: https://www.pcmatic.com/blog/virginia-school-victim-phishing-attack/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/grassfield-high-school-58
"id": "gra134511222",
"linkid": "grassfield-high-school-58",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "11/2018",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "2",
"explanation": "Attack limited on finance or reputation"{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Education',
'name': 'Grassfield High School',
'type': 'Educational Institution'}],
'attack_vector': 'Phishing Email',
'description': 'Grassfield High School suffered a cyber attack, leaving '
'various computers utterly useless. A staff member clicked on '
'a phishing email which infected their computer, as well as '
'others on the network. Classes that rely heavily on '
'computers, like marketing or economics, struggled to keep up '
'with the class curriculum. However, the outage was managed by '
'the school’s IT department.',
'impact': {'operational_impact': 'Classes that rely heavily on computers '
'struggled to keep up with the class '
'curriculum.',
'systems_affected': ['Computers']},
'initial_access_broker': {'entry_point': 'Phishing Email'},
'post_incident_analysis': {'root_causes': 'A staff member clicked on a '
'phishing email.'},
'response': {'recovery_measures': 'The outage was managed by the school’s IT '
'department.'},
'title': 'Cyber Attack at Grassfield High School',
'type': 'Phishing Attack',
'vulnerability_exploited': 'Human'}