A cyberattack forced Salida School District in Colorado to take its network offline on about 29 June, with the incident detected roughly two hours later. The district says the disruption damaged files stored on some devices’ hard drives and disrupted central office operations. It cautioned that some damaged files may be unrecoverable, though it did not specify whether encryption or other damage caused the losses. Specialists were brought in to investigate and plan safe restoration.
The report notes there has been no published final forensic finding confirming the preliminary assessment, and at the time of disclosure it remained unclear whether the attack involved ransomware or extortion. Officials have not publicly linked any threat actor to the incident, and the district has not disclosed the attack’s method or initial point of access.
DysruptionHub’s summary quotes the district as saying that no information appeared to have been accessed or extracted, but again stresses that the district had not released definitive forensic conclusions.