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Hack Attack INSIDE INFORMATION ON HOW THE COMPUTERS AT SCHOOL LOST DATA. Words | Anson Eggerss
Friday, January 10th, 2020 seemed like just another ordinary day at the Geneva School of Boerne. But something happened that day, something that would affect every person on campus. That Friday, a deadly virus made its way into the school’s computers and hard drives, a virus set to destroy years of lesson plans, spreadsheets, historical data, pictures and documents. What started off that day as slow computers ended with whole files and, eventually, whole drives being corrupted. Throughout the following week, teachers began to lose the ability to open files on their computers, with some computers even rendered inoperative. Some teachers lost multiple years’ worth of work as many of their documents turned into corrupted, unopenable files.
