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A high school student has been arrested and charged with a cyberattack that took down the servers of Miami-Dade County public schools this week, the school district said in a statement.
The attack crashed the district's online learning platform and blocked students from logging on during their first week of online classes.
A 16-year-old student admitted to carrying out a distributed denial-of-service attack, and the FBI is now investigating the incident, the district said.
A 16-year-old student has been arrested and charged with orchestrating a cyberattack that crashed the Miami-Dade County Public Schools' online learning platform during the first week of classes, the school district said Thursday.
The district began its first day of online classes on Monday, with all students signing on remotely. But almost immediately, classes were disrupted when students encountered glitches that made it difficult to log on to the district's remote learning platform. Those issues stretched on for days, according to the Miami Palmetto Senior High school paper.
By Thursday, one student was arrested and admitted to orchestrating eight distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attacks that flooded the district networks and blocked students from logging in, the district said in a statement. The attacks ceased after the 16-year-old student was arrested, florida school student charged cyberattack caused chaos during first online classes
