Analysis Confirms START Accounts Safe From LOSFA Cyber Incident

Analysis confirms START accounts safe from LOSFA cyber incident

A third-party analysis found that START accounts weren't involved in the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance (LOSFA) cyber incident.

College savings accounts not affected by cyber incident, Louisiana official says

A new survey of state chief information and security officers finds them better prepared to protect their networks from cyberattacks than four years earlier, but still worried about limited staff and resources. (Bill Hinton/Getty Images)After taking its 529 college savings accounts offline in October following a cyber incident, the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance announced Tuesday the accounts are back online and were not impact…

Analysis confirms START accounts safe from LOSFA cyber incident

A third-party analysis found that START accounts weren’t involved in the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance (LOSFA) cyber incident.

LOSFA says START system back online, accounts not involved in cyber attack

BATON ROUGE — After taking its 529 college savings program offline due to a cyber attack in early October, the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance said Tuesday that all accounts are back online and were not involved.LOSFA Interim Executive Director Susannah Craig said in a release that START, START K-12 and START ABLE accounts were taken offline until State Police and the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that they were not …