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Students sit with their laptop computers at St. Joseph Catholic School in La Puente, California on November 16, 2020.
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Sixth-grade teacher Hilary Hall had just started teaching one Monday morning in September when her teacher’s group chats at Newhall School District exploded with confused messages. Teachers in the Santa Clarita school district — located just north of Los Angeles — were panicking.
While Hall had no issues logging onto her computer from home, many of her colleagues, connected to the school district’s server, were met with a mysterious pop-up message.
It said users wouldn’t be able to log into the server.