No Student Information Compromised in Cyberattack

WAAY-31's Bridget Divers discusses the aftermath of the Cyberattack has had on school devices and the students in possession of them.

Happening now - the huntsville city school board is preparing for its first work session since a ransomware attack last week.

It comes after school leaders revealed new findings about the attack's impact on student's information and school devices just hours ago!

Waay-31's bridget divers is live at huntsville city schools with the new developments?

Dan, najahe -- hunstville city schools says the student information held in systems like power-school and i- now was not comrpomised during the cybersecurity attack.

And currently it does not look like chromebooks were impacted, but windows devices are going to be collected to be examined.

High schoolers and teachers use windows devices.

And high schoolers will get their computers back after the school system examines them.

But teachers are going to get all new computers.

The school system could not give an exact number on how much that is going to cost though.

"but in terms of just kind of thinking short-term in the term of re-deployment, re- issuing of devices, it's the windows devices that we want to revisit and re-examine and those windows devices are used by students in grades 9 through 12 as well as teachers so that's what we're going to be collecting and examining."

Now no one in the school district should be turning on their devices, even students with chromebooks.

The district will let students and teachers know when it is safe to use their computers again.

Live in hunstville, bridget divers, waay-31 news.

We're keeping a close eye on this story.

Everything we know so far is on our website waay t-v dot com.

Tonight on waay 31 news at 10... we'll break down what happened at