The Board of Education for Los Angeles County Public Schools voted unanimously to bestow Superintendent Alberto Carvalho with emergency powers to cut through bureaucratic red tape to deal with a massive cyberattack launched on their systems over Labor Day weekend, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Carvalho said the district’s administration is working withe various law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, to track the attack. Cybercrime syndicate Vice Society has taken responsibility for the attack, but school officials will not confirm what they know about the attacker.
Teams are working to knock down the attack, with officials saying the attack took down the facilities network and encrypted other files. Some damage was averted when system administrators noticed the attack and took other systems offline.