WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Wichita school district has disabled a computer system while the district investigates a recent hacking attempt.
The school district disabled its Synergy computer system to investigate the hacking attempt discovered last week. The system was still down Tuesday afternoon.
The Wichita Eagle reports that the disabled computer system has caused some problems for high school students needing transcripts for college or scholarship applications.
The system authenticates student transcripts, which many high school seniors need to send to colleges by Sunday to meet early application deadlines. District officials heard Tuesday from a couple schools where students were concerned about being able to get those transcripts.
Officials say they’re working with Wichita police and a cyber-security consulting company to determine the extent of the hacking attempt.