LAUSD board gives emergency power to Superintendent Carvalho after recent cyberattack, letting him hire cybersecurity experts without public bidding.
The Los Angeles Unified school board on Tuesday, Sept. 13, granted broad emergency power to Superintendent Alberto Carvalho to respond swiftly to the recent cyberattack on LAUSD, bypassing the usual public bidding process required when the district contracts with vendors or consultants.
like the one over Labor Day weekend. The cyberattack forced roughly 600,000 students and staff in the nation’s second-largest district to reset their passwords.
LAUSD staff found that an outside party had hacked the district’s computer systems over Labor Day weekend and immediately worked to notify law enforcement while shutting down all systems to stop the attacker from further infiltrating potentially sensitive or confidential information. A system used by the facilities department that contains information such as payments to contractors – much of which is already public record – appeared to be the attacker’s point of entry, Carvalho said.
The district’s student information system was “touched,” Carvalho said, though it’s unclear what the extent of that might be.say the fact that LAUSD may not have evidence that sensitive information was stolen doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
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