A replacement grading and attendance system developed by the city has been slow to roll out, and throughout the fall left some parents without a sense of how their kids were performing in school. In some cases, they extracted information about whether students get special education services and economic status information.Īt the end of the school year, the city called it quits with Illuminate Education, which again caused disruption for many teachers and families. The attackers gained access to a database containing students’ names, birthdays, ethnicities, home languages and ID numbers since the 2016-17 school year. That breach prompted a weeks-long shutdown of the systems and wreaked havoc on the city’s schools. ![]() Last year, the personal data of 820,000 current and former city public school students were compromised in the hack of a widely used online grading and attendance system from the company Illuminate Education. ![]() Over the last month, the hackers have used a software vulnerability to steal files from roughly 100 organizations, according to Axios, and demand ransom from some for not publishing them on its website. The city worked with an e-discovery firm to do a full review of the impacted files, with preliminary results released Friday, and has taken down the impacted server.Īn investigation by the NYPD and FBI is ongoing. Those families will be offered access to an identity monitoring service.Ĭybersecurity experts suspect the hackers are a Russia-affiliated ransomware group known by the acronym CL0P. The data impacted per person may vary.Įducation officials will notify students whose confidential information was compromised beginning this summer. Hackers also accessed student and employee ID numbers, and dates of birth. Personal data that was impacted ranged from Social Security numbers for some students and teachers, to roughly 19,000 documents including student evaluations and related services progress reports, Medicaid reports, and internal employee leave records. ![]() The hack impacted fewer local students than a breach last year estimated to be the largest-ever of K-12 student data nationwide - but is hitting more sensitive information. “Currently, we have no reason to believe there is any ongoing unauthorized access to DOE systems.” “Working with NYC Cyber Command, we immediately took steps to remediate, and an internal investigation revealed that certain DOE files were affected,” said Styer.
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