JUNCTION CITY — Geary County USD 475 pulled the plug in its Internet service after what is believed to be a cyberattack overloading the district’s systems.
“The first outage affected most of the state. The attackers sent out a code that caused one or more computers to repeatedly send out millions of pieces of data to clog our network,” Superintendent Ron Walker said in a new release.
He said the district’s firewall prevented any access to financial or confidential information.
Consultants were called in by the school district to help resolve the problem.