Mansfield Public Schools (CT)

Comcast confirmed that Mansfield public schools have been the victim of a Distributed Denial of Service attack.

Comcast has implemented mitigation measures to help manage the problem and identify and block malicious traffic and allow regular traffic to flow through.

School officials have been working with the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and learned Mansfield was not the only school district in Massachusetts to have experienced this type of technology attack.

Source: https://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/mansfield-schools-hacked-working-to-resolve-issues/article_677ff10f-8e5a-5ba8-af80-bdb87bd341a9.html

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/mansfield-public-schools

"id": "man12129523",
"linkid": "mansfield-public-schools",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "11/2020",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "2",
"explanation": "Attack limited on finance or reputation"

{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Education',
                        'location': 'Mansfield, Massachusetts',
                        'name': 'Mansfield Public Schools',
                        'type': 'School District'}],
 'attack_vector': 'Network Traffic',
 'description': 'Comcast confirmed that Mansfield public schools have been the '
                'victim of a Distributed Denial of Service attack. Comcast has '
                'implemented mitigation measures to help manage the problem '
                'and identify and block malicious traffic and allow regular '
                'traffic to flow through. School officials have been working '
                'with the state Department of Elementary and Secondary '
                'Education and learned Mansfield was not the only school '
                'district in Massachusetts to have experienced this type of '
                'technology attack.',
 'impact': {'downtime': ['Intermittent Service Disruption'],
            'operational_impact': ['Service Disruption'],
            'systems_affected': ['Network Services']},
 'response': {'communication_strategy': ['Working with the state Department of '
                                         'Elementary and Secondary Education'],
              'containment_measures': ['Traffic Filtering'],
              'enhanced_monitoring': ['Traffic Monitoring'],
              'remediation_measures': ['Mitigation Measures'],
              'third_party_assistance': ['Comcast']},
 'title': 'Distributed Denial of Service Attack on Mansfield Public Schools',
 'type': 'Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)'}