West Virginia students returning to class after days-long outage following cyberattack

Nearly 20,000 students in West Virginia were forced to miss classes on Monday due to a cyberattack that crippled their school.

Berkeley County Schools said on Friday it was experiencing an internet and phone outage on Friday and spent the weekend working through issues related to a cyberattack. 

Superintendent Ronald Stephens wrote a note to students and parents saying IT operations throughout the district were limited due to the cyberattack and noted that law enforcement agencies were contacted. 

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