Student Accesses SMMUSD's Gmail

MALIBU, CA —A student in the Santa Monica–Malibu Unified School District accessed the school's email late Friday night, according to an email sent by Superintendent Dr. Ben Drati.

Drati reported that the student was able to send messages to the student body for 16 minutes before the district’s technology team discovered the mass emails and disabled the system. During the weekend, the Gmail application was been temporarily disabled, but teachers were able to use private comments within Google Docs Assignments or use the Stream within Google Classroom for public comments. As of Monday morning Gmail is back in use and distance learning was not disrupted.

Drati recommended that students and parents temporarily sign out of Gmail on all devices. “We apologize for this disruption,” he wrote. “The district is committed to protecting our learning tools and platforms and maintaining student data and privacy.”