The San Diego Community College District said an attempted cyber attack led to system outages starting Saturday, prompting the district to take its internet, email, websites, web-based phones, and student registration systems offline as a precaution. The district—covering San Diego City, Mesa, Miramar and Continuing Education—said its IT system detected the attack immediately. The outage approach underscores how quickly higher-ed operations can be disrupted when authentication, communications, and student systems are linked. For students and employees, the key near-term impact is continuity of registration and access to core digital services while the district responds and restores systems.