Cyberattack on the Butte School District compromises employee information

pMenuppBUTTE â Personal information including social security numbers was compromised in a cyberattack on the Butte School District that directly impacted more than 900 school district employeesppButte School Superintendent Judy Jonart said employees have been offered 12 months of free credit monitoring protectionppâYes their information was impacted but we went to immediately protect that information with the credit monitoring and the identity theft insuranceâ said JonartppSchool officials first noticed the districtâs computer system was hacked on Nov 4 and since then the system has been shut down to prevent further intrusion Jonart said some student personal information may have been compromised but not their social security numbers because they donât have the studentsâ numbers in the computer systemppThe district says it has notified parents of the information breachesppThe extent of the cyberattack is still being investigated nearly four weeks after it was first discovered Public schools in Butte have not been able to use their computers or internet since the attackppâEvery day one more piece gets up and functioning So itâs not all the way functioning but every day we make more and more progressâ said Jonartp