What readers need to know

Pacific Grove Unified School District says it experienced an external phishing attack at approximately 1:43 p.m. Monday, August 17. According to the district notice, several staff email accounts were compromised, allowing the attacker to send fraudulent messages to recipients inside and outside PGUSD.

The district says the affected accounts were immediately disabled. It instructed recipients to delete the fraudulent message and strongly recommended that anyone who clicked a link change the password for the affected email account. Readers should use a known district phone number or a fresh browser window—not a link in a suspicious message—when verifying a request.

The visible district notice establishes compromised email accounts and fraudulent messages. It does not establish that student records or other personal data were accessed, so MyPG.news is not making that inference. The notice was first identified in this newsroom review after more than 88 hours had elapsed and therefore enters the archive as a labeled backfill rather than appearing in the live feed.