ANKENY, Iowa — All Des Moines Area Community College (DMACC) classes with an in-person component — either fully in-person or partially in-person — will resume Wednesday at their regularly scheduled times and locations, but all-online classes will be canceled, the community college announced Tuesday.
All DMACC classes were canceled Thursday when a cyberattack disrupted online classes and the school’s telephone system. Friday, Monday and Tuesday meetings were also canceled.
“I want to assure you that we are doing everything possible to get our systems operational again,” DMACC President Rob Denson said Tuesday. “As you know, we shut down parts of our network in order to assess the situation, secure our network, and ensure that personal information was not impacted. Our IT Department and outside cyber experts have been working around the clock to get full service restored and determine what, if any, data was compromised. We have also contacted the FBI and they have joined the investigation.”
The DMACC faculty are continuing to modify schedules and assignments for all classes due to continuing network limitations.
Denson said the “data security incident” has not led to the loss or misuse of “any student or faculty information.”
“I want to personally thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to get the DMACC computer network fully restored,” he said.
