A cyberattack from unknown sources and for unknown reasons is to blame for shutting town the Ontario-wide online literacy test lat week. The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) said students were left looking at blank screens by a “malicious and sustained Distributed Denial of Service attack.” This attack seems to have occurred in the same context as the attack on the Dyn hosting service which shut down important businesses like Twitter, Paypal and others, but the EQAO release does not say if the same creeps are responsible for the attack on the literacy test.
