Brittany Hope reports: The Elk Grove Unified School District confirmed Monday it is investigating tax filing issues for some of its employees. KCRA 3 first received a tip about the potential identity theft two weeks ago but heard about official action from the district on Friday when we obtained a survey sent to some district…
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Illuminate Education Beats Lawsuit Over Breach of Student Data
Christopher Brown reports: Illuminate Education Inc. defeated a proposed class action alleging it negligently failed to protect the information of more than 3 million elementary and high school students that was exposed in a late-December 2021 data breach. The plaintiffs failed to show that they had suffered concrete harm from the breach or were at…
Rochester Public Schools Reintroduce Technology Following Cyber Attack
Cam Speck reports that everything old is new again, and students and teachers are discovering some benefits to not being so engaged with technology: Rochester Public Schools (RPS) experienced a cyber attack that had significant consequences on their technology systems, which resulted in them being taken offline. However, in the wake of the attack, the staff,…
Five months after Crown Point Schools suffered a cyberattack, they still don’t know what happened or what they will do
In November, Crown Point Community School students returned to classes after a “network outage” incident that the district feared might be a cybersecurity breach. Now, months later, William Skipworth reports that the investigation into the cybersecurity breach could last another few months. The investigation, which has been ongoing since November, could last a few more…
Hackers Stole School Data. The District Left Teachers in the Dark
More on the Tucson Unified School District ransomware attack by Royal. Jack Gillum reports: Classrooms across Tucson, Arizona, were ravaged by ransomware in January that locked up computer systems and forced teachers to revamp lesson plans. Officials in southern Arizona’s largest school district tried assuring students and staff for weeks that, despite the cyberattack, sensitive data wasn’t…
No evidence found of Little Rock School District data use after ransomware incident
Cynthia Howell reports: The Little Rock School District, a victim of a 2022 data security attack, is telling its past and present employees, student families and vendors that there is no evidence that their personal data has been “viewed, used or misused.” However, that announcement — posted recently on the 21,000-student district’s website — also…