A sophisticated cyberattack targeting the San Diego Community College District has knocked offline the digital feeds of one of Southern California’s last full-time jazz radio stations during finals week — leaving the station’s globalaudience in the dark.
KSDS Jazz 88.3 told listeners this week that the district-wide cyberattack disabled its streaming and mobile app services.
The long-running public jazz station operates out of San Diego City College and is licensed to the San Diego Community College District, but broadcasts to over 200 countries worldwide via online streaming.
“Over the weekend the San Diego Community College District suffered a cyber attack that took down the internet — including the KSDS streaming and app feed,” the stationwrote in a Facebook postMonday.
The station also posted an alert on its website acknowledging the outage.
“KSDS apologizes about our stream being down,” the message read. “We are currently working on the issue and hope to have it resolved as soon as possible.”
The station said it does not yet know when service will be restored.
District officials have described the incident as the largest cyberattack in the history of the San Diego Community College District, according to local reports.
The attack began Saturday after cybersecurity systems detected suspicious activity within the district’s network, according toreporting from Times of San DiegoandCBS8.
Officials initially believed the threat had been contained after shutting down servers over the weekend, but issues resurfaced after systems briefly came back online Monday.
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