Breaches and incidents
Grassfield High School (Chesapeake Public Schools, Virginia): compromised student email accounts send threats and explicit content
Per WAVY (via AOL), “Some Grassfield High School students received emails containing threats and inappropriate and explicit content” on Monday evening from...
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What happened
- Per WAVY (via AOL), “Some Grassfield High School students received emails containing threats and inappropriate and explicit content” on Monday evening from “several individual student email accounts” (Principal Brian Haughinberry); a parent’s estimate of “dozens” of recipients is unverified.
- Root cause: not disclosed. The superintendent described “an ongoing cybersecurity incident involving compromised student email accounts and unauthorized communications.”
- No attacker named.
- “The compromised accounts have been disabled and we are closely monitoring our system”; the district’s technology department is working with law enforcement, and Chesapeake Police added a campus presence.