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BOSTON (AP) — Officials in Boston say a cyberattack caused a brief internet outage to city agencies including the school district.
But Mayor Marty Walsh, Police Commissioner William Evans and School Superintendent Tommy Chang stressed Tuesday that they don't believe the outage was linked to threats made to Los Angeles and New York public schools.
They said the Boston schools have received no credible threats and remain open.
Officials called Tuesday's news conference after Los Angeles shuttered its public schools because of an email threat. New York schools remained open.
Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Boston's chief information officer, said Tuesday's internet outage started around 9 a.m. and lasted about 20 minutes.
Franklin-Hodge described it as a "minor act of cybervandalism," commonly known as a "denial of service attack." He said it wasn't clear who was responsible.
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