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Hacker gets data on millions of California students · GNN Daily Breaking News

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  Speaker 1: The California Department of Education announced a major cybersecurity breach
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  Speaker 1: after an unauthorized party compromised a third-party server to access
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  Speaker 1: and copy personal records belonging to millions of public school
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  Speaker 1: students across the state. Official breach notifications issued by state
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  Speaker 1: authorities reveal that the cyber intrusion targeted file transfer systems
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  Speaker 1: managed by the Educational Testing Service a nonprofit contractor responsible
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  Speaker 1: for administering statewide academic assessments. Forensic investigations confirmed that the
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  Speaker 1: attacker used compromised login credentials to repeatedly access the file-sharing
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  Speaker 1: network over a four-month period stretching from late May to mid-September.
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  Speaker 1: State education officials confirmed that the exposed data encompasses information
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  Speaker 1: from all students enrolled across California school districts over the
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  Speaker 1: past three academic years, potentially affecting more than 5 million
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  Speaker 1: current and former pupils. The compromised files contain sensitive personal
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  Speaker 1: and academic identifiers, including student names, home addresses, dates of birth,
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  Speaker 1: local and state identification numbers, demographic details, English language proficiency scores,
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  Speaker 1: and special education program records. However, investigators report that highly
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  Speaker 1: sensitive financial data Social security numbers, passwords, and parent contact
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  Speaker 1: information were not accessed during the security incident. Following the
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  Speaker 1: discovery of the breach, the testing service immediately took the
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  Speaker 1: impacted file transfer system offline and constructed a replacement infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: equipped with strengthened access controls and continuous network monitoring. State
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  Speaker 1: officials confirmed that there is currently no evidence indicating the
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  Speaker 1: stolen information has been published or exploited online. Those state
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  Speaker 1: agencies are proactively offering affected students and families two years
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  Speaker 1: of complementary identity protection services. While the testing contractor suspended
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  Speaker 1: normal enrollment data processing to secure its systems, State education
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  Speaker 1: leaders are coordinating with district superintendents to restore routine statewide
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  Speaker 1: testing operations without further technical disruption.