Benjamin Herold reports:
The American Institutes for Research, a major research and testing organization with a significant presence in K-12 education in the United States, suffered a serious data breach earlier this month.
After one of the organization’s servers was hacked, the sensitive personal information of as many as 6,500 current and former employees, including Social Security numbers and personal credit card information, was compromised, an AIR spokesman confirmed during an interview Monday with Education Week. No student or client information was affected.
Read more on Education Week.
If you can’t protect your own vital business information, how can you be expected to protect the information from school districts across the country ???