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Juniors Olivia Ko (center) and Euree Kim stand near their chalk drawings during fourth period in Advanced Placement Environmental Sciences teacher Wesley Fairall’s class between the 80s and 100s buildings on Tuesday, Nov. 14, when the network outage first hit districtwide. While the class usually works digitally, Fairall adjusted to the lack of internet access with the activity.

A LOOK BACK: The Accolade reflects on how last November’s network outage — confirmed on Friday, Jan. 12, as a ransomware attack — impacted the SH campus

Alexxa Berumen and Seowon Han • January 12, 2024

Fullerton Joint Union High School District superintendent Steve McLaughlin’s Friday, Jan. 12, email sent nearly an hour after school to students and parents informs stakeholders that last November’s network outage was “caused by a sophisticated ransomware attack.”

Staff Editorial: Fullerton Joint Union High School District superintendent should have acted sooner in informing community about November data breach

The Accolade Staff Editorial Board • January 12, 2024

The Accolade Editorial Board unanimously agrees that the district-wide network outage that occurred last semester from Nov. 14-Nov. 15 warranted more transparency and immediate information from the superintendent.  Cyber...

A teacher earlier this week anonymously provided The Accolade with a letter titled, “NOTICE OF DATA BREACH,” which states the cause of the recent internet outage that all schools in the Fullerton Joint Union High School District faced last November before Thanksgiving break. Emails from The Accolade that have been sent to the superintendent asking for comment on the document and the ransomware attack were unresponsive until Friday, Jan. 12.

HACKED: Unspecified number of district employee data taken from November’s network outage, according to Friday, Jan. 5, letter

Alexxa Berumen, Editor-in-Chief • January 12, 2024

*The Accolade strives to follow professional journalism practices in identifying all sources in the stories it posts or publishes. However, in rare cases in which sources’ identities could risk harm,...

This spray-painted message appears to be a reaction to the Friday, Oct. 1, statewide mandate from California Gov. Gavin Newsom that requires students 12 and older in public and private schools to be fully vaccinated by as soon as January 2022. Students and motorists who use the path that leads to the back of Target at Fullerton Town Center discovered the graffiti on a wall between Friday, Oct. 1, and Monday, Oct. 4 – about a mile away from one of the entrances to Sunny Hills. By after school Wednesday, Oct. 6, the message was wiped away.

Most in Sunny Hills community approve of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide

Susie Kim, Web Editor-in-Chief • October 7, 2021

While the Fullerton Joint Union High School District [FJUHSD] opted not to follow the Los Angeles Unified School District’s [LAUSD] recent decision to issue a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for all of...

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