As an update on a story posted here yesterday, Howard Buck reports that over 3,000 employees were affected by the breach of Vancouver Public Schools, and that:
Already, several Vancouver district employees have reported “hits” of suspicious personal banking account activity after their financial institutions were alerted to possible fraud, by the district or by employees directly.
“They are out there,” Steve Olsen, VPS chief fiscal officer, said of the Social Security numbers, along with names, birth dates and other personal identification and banking information believed compromised.
It now appears someone who gained I.D. password access cracked into the Citrix software “server farm” hosted by Educational Service District 112, based in Vancouver. That person obtained personal payroll data, said Olsen and Linda Turner, the district’s technology officer.
An out-of-order “process,” or computer data run, first drew attention of managers last Friday, Turner said.
“We believe it was an outsider that hacked into the system,” Turner said.
Read more on Columbian.com.
Thanks to Wilma of ITRC for providing this link.
Updated Nov. 12: Fox12 reports that over 6,000 current and former employees had their names, Social Security numbers and banking information in the database.