In reaction to a potential cybersecurity attack, Hartnell College’s governing board conducted an urgent meeting on Wednesday evening to address the ongoing network outage at the institution.
The college’s security system detected unusual behavior at 6 a.m. on Sunday, prompting Hartnell Vice President of Technology Chelsy Pham to take precautions and shut down the college’s servers at around 8 a.m. Pham reported that the network had high levels of activity, which is unusual for a Sunday morning.
The main school in Salinas as well as the satellite campuses in East Salinas, Soledad, Castroville, and King City were all affected by the outage. According to Pham, the satellite campuses’ internet was disabled out of an abundance of caution.
On Monday, there was no postponement of classes and the school’s services were still available. Even though classes were still in session on Wednesday, students who depend heavily on the internet while on campus find the outage to be a hassle.
According to Pham, the college is striving to gradually reactivate the network. Although some lab and classroom conditions have to be changed, lessons have not been disrupted because the school’s online teaching platform, Canvas, is up and running.
The college’s phone system is still down as of now, but emails an
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