Steven Luke and R. Stickney report:
San Diego Unified School District officials are informing parents and former students of a large data breach. Personal data including Social Security numbers from as many as 500,000 students was compromised or possibly stolen, officials say.
The breach dating back to January 2018 was uncovered in October by district IT employees who were investigating phishing emails.
Read more on NBC San Diego.
Great thanks to Seth Barron for alerting me to this story. The district’s full statement appears below:
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