Cybersecurity incident — 2021-03-04 00:00:00
Affected organization: Nottinghamshire schools
Affected country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Industry: Educational Services
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: External Denial of Service
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined

Schools across Nottinghamshire have had to shut down their IT networks after a central trust that manages their systems was hit by a cyber attack. All 15 secondary schools that are part of the Nova Education Trust are currently unable to access emails or their websites, and are still unable to conduct lessons remotely.