Finalsite (large host of school portals) outage due to ransomware (status.finalsite.com) 2 points by mlyle 4y ago ↗ HN
[–] mlyle 4y ago ↗ Highlights:* Finalsite provides hosting-- both of public websites and private (parent/faculty) portals -- to thousands of schools worldwide.* There's been an outage now for 2 days.* Only in the past few hours, they've shared that the cause of the outage was a systems compromise and ransomware.* Finalsite claims they believe that no sensitive information was taken. [–] mlyle 4y ago ↗ One more interesting note: Finalsite has a recommended communication to make to parents, which is very opaque about the underlying cause of the outage.
[–] mlyle 4y ago ↗ One more interesting note: Finalsite has a recommended communication to make to parents, which is very opaque about the underlying cause of the outage.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 14.5 ms ] thread* Finalsite provides hosting-- both of public websites and private (parent/faculty) portals -- to thousands of schools worldwide.
* There's been an outage now for 2 days.
* Only in the past few hours, they've shared that the cause of the outage was a systems compromise and ransomware.
* Finalsite claims they believe that no sensitive information was taken.