Cyberattack Forces Idaho's Jerome School District to Cancel Monday Classes
TechNadu · x · 2026-10-19
Jerome School District No. 261 in Idaho canceled Monday classes and parent-teacher conferences after a weekend cyberattack knocked district networks and communications offline, with no restoration timeline confirmed. Superintendent Brent Johnson said emergency procedures were activated alongside state and federal agencies investigating the incident. Officials say student laptops and sensitive data remain unaffected and have not confirmed whether ransomware was involved — the district's second major cyber disruption after a December 2017 ransomware infection.
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