The San Diego Community College District said an attempted cyber attack caused system outages beginning Saturday, affecting multiple colleges in the district, including San Diego City, Mesa, Miramar, and continuing education. The district reported it detected the attack quickly using its IT systems and temporarily took its internet, email, websites, web-based phones, and student registration systems offline as a safeguard. The incident underscores the cascading vulnerability that campus cyber events can create for student services—particularly registration workflows, communication channels, and day-to-day operations reliant on online systems. For institutional leaders, the immediate takeaway is operational continuity: what remains available for students and staff, how quickly critical systems can be restored, and what monitoring and security validation steps follow after systems are taken offline.