The cancellation of an online literacy test for tens of thousands of Ontario high school students is being blamed on a cyber attack.
The Education Quality and Accountability Office says the network hosting last week’s trial test was targeted intentionally and maliciously.
The agency says the huge denial of service attack was carried out by “an unknown entity or entities” and was meant to block school boards and students from accessing the test.
An E-Q-A-O official says about 15-thousand students managed to complete the test and the agency is reviewing the data to see whether the results can be released, but there’s no time for another trial test before spring.

(The Canadian Press)