When a representative from the Internal Revenue Service arrived at the Manatee County School Board offices last week to pick up information on a cyber attack in January , Chief Information Officer Patrick Fletcher gave him a double take . On Feb 3 , district administrators learned that two payroll employees had fallen for a n email phishing scam. Attack.Phishing A hacker p osing as Attack.Phishing Superintendent Diana Greene s ent Attack.Phishing an email to one of the employees , requesting all W-2 forms for district employees . The Manatee payroll employee complied , and with the help of another employee , sent the hacker a PDF file containing all 7,700 W-2s for any employee who worked in the district in 2016 . Because of the freshness of the attack , Fletcher wasn ’ t taking any chances . Rather than hand over the sensitive information to the man c laiming to be Attack.Phishing from the government , Fletcher drove the file down to the IRS office himself . “ Now we are going to be like Fort Knox , ” said Deputy Superintendent Ron Ciranna . That vigilance may seem like too little , too late to the 7,700 district employees whose information w as leaked Attack.Databreach through what many have characterized as an obvious scam . But school district officials say they are doing everything they can to help employees regroup after the attack . The district notified employees as soon as administrators learned of the attack and purchased identity protection and credit monitoring for all employees , and Ciranna said the district will be increasing its cyber-security training .