Lassen College’s website, emails, portals, online classrooms and the college’s report server were rendered unusable early last week, in what the college calls a ‘cyber attack’ on the school’s network infrastructure.
Lassen Community College’s Interim President, Dr. Trevor Albertson explained that students as well as all staff and faculty were affected in last Tuesday’s outage, but since then some parts of the system have been restored.
“As of last Friday afternoon, the college’s email was restored and is functioning,” explained Albertson. “However, the LCC website, portal and various components such as Datatel which functions as our report server, are still not able to be accessed.”
Students may now access their classes through Portalguard.lassencollege.edu.
“Federal and local law enforcement is working diligently to resolve this,” said Albertson, who has also been in contact with other community colleges, including Feather River College, to advise of the attack on LCC.
According to Albertson at least three other schools in the California Community College system have recently suffered similar attacks.
“Having this attack the first week of the spring semester could not have been at a worse time for LCC staff and students.”
He reminded students to please be patient and to not stress if they have had difficulties submitting work. Please contact your course instructors or the Instruction office at 530.257.6181 x8955.
