Cyberattack forces British high school to close

A cyberattack has forced Higham Lane School in Nuneaton to remain closed after the Christmas holidays, with approximately 1,500 students unable to attend while the school’s telephones, emails, servers and management system remain offline. The Central England Academy Trust has activated incident response protocols, engaged independent cybersecurity specialists and notified the Information Commissioner’s Office; the nature of the attack and whether any data was exfiltrated have not been confirmed, though the report references recent ransomware attacks against the education sector.