The first sign something was wrong came courtesy of an alert that Joel Handler received notifying him that his district’s Student Information System (SIS) was offline. It was 8:35 p.m. on April 11, 2021, and Hillsborough Township Public Schools’ spring break was coming to an end.
After receiving the alert, Handler, the district’s director of technology, and one of his staff members started trying to determine what was wrong with VPN access from their home computers.
