Officials with Great Falls Public Schools confirmed that a now week-long network system outage was caused by a ransomware infection.

The district shut down most of its systems last week in an effort to contain and investigate the attack, but GFPS Superintendent Tom Moore said in a press conference on Monday that the district has had some success in restoring access to some systems and computers.

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“What do we do?”

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“We break into companies and write reports about it.”