According to sources, Morgan County Schools (a Education organization in West Virginia) was hit with a cyber attack. It was first reported on 2021-07-14.

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Source 1  |  2021-07-14

Morgan County Schools’ computers hit by holiday ransomware attack

“-"Morgan County Schools was one of many victims of a massive Fourth of July weekend ransomware attack that struck businesses and agencies nationally and around the globe." -"A Russian-based hacker group initially demanded $70 million to stop the cyberattack." -"the hack occurred on Friday, July 2 and was contained to some of their office computers. Some individual machines were infected and some files were locked from the attack. The group behind the hack wants school officials to pay money for the files to be released." -"The cyberattackers have files locked up and nothing has been released." -"At this time, Close said they are unaware of any personal information that has been lost." “

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