PENNCREST School District Responds to Cybersecurity Incident

“Over the weekend, the PENNCREST School District became aware of a situation, believed to be a ransomware event, which has disrupted certain aspects of our operations. We quickly took steps to implement our Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan. Following our plan, we shut down and disconnected the entire network and technology infrastructure. We are now working diligently with external cybersecurity specialists to conduct a thorough forensic investigation into the nature and scope of the event and to securely restore operations. At this time, we have not identified evidence of any data loss, data access, or data theft as a result of this event. Our primary focus is to ensure there is no interruption to any learning activity. Our investigation into the event is in its very early stages and we do not have much information to share. We appreciate your patience as we respond to this event, and we will continue to keep you updated as our forensic investigation progresses, and new information becomes available.”