This week’s Insider Deals are so good you’ll want all of them– A 18-year-old student at Klein Forest High School is currently wanted by police after they say he was responsible for cyber attacks that disrupted STAAR testing for thousands of students in the district.
The internet disruptions affected all campuses district-wide and about 3,000 students on their STAAR tests on April 16, which was the first day of the English Language Arts test. Students were locked out and had to stop and restart their writing essays and multiple choice test answer due to the online attack, records show.
In total, 6,981 students tested on April 16, with an additional 17,298 students testing on April 17. The number of students impacted by the disruptions to the district’s internet service across both days was 24,279, according to the documents. On April 19, two assistant principals along with the Klein ISD IT department met with the student who said he knew why they were having the meeting, before he allegedly admitted to accessing the websites used to send the DDoS attacks on multiple occasions.