High school fires IT manager – then he launches cyberattack on its network, US feds say

After he lost his job, the former IT employee used administrative privileges to delete or deactivate more than 2,600 Apple accounts from the school’s network that manages student, faculty and staff technology resources, federal officials said in a court filing. — Dreamstime/TNS

A former IT manager is accused of launching a cyberattack on a Massachusetts high school that recently fired him, federal officials said.

The 30-year-old from Ayer was a desktop and network manager at Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School, according to a Nov 29 news release from the US Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts.