Pickens County School District

Pickens County School District experienced outages on school and student devices after it suffered a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) attack on servers.

However, the school said that there was a DDOS attack that affected our web filtering software company which affected all of our devices as well.

Source: https://www.databreaches.net/sc-pickens-county-school-district-internet-outage-caused-by-cyberattack-district-says/

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/pickens-county-school-district

"id": "pic2054161122",
"linkid": "pickens-county-school-district",
"type": "Cyber Attack",
"date": "09/2020",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "2",
"explanation": "Attack limited on finance or reputation"

{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Education',
                        'name': 'Pickens County School District',
                        'type': 'Educational Institution'}],
 'attack_vector': 'DDoS attack',
 'description': 'Pickens County School District experienced outages on school '
                'and student devices after it suffered a Distributed '
                'Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on servers. The school '
                'reported that the DDoS attack affected their web filtering '
                'software company, which in turn affected all of their '
                'devices.',
 'impact': {'downtime': 'Outages on school and student devices',
            'systems_affected': 'Web filtering software'},
 'title': 'DDoS Attack on Pickens County School District',
 'type': 'Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)'}