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Millions of California students have sensitive data stolen — names, SSIDs, home addresses and more taken in attack on nonprofit

Sensitive, personally identifiable information leaked

Tarun Mottlia

Via TechRadar

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Millions of California students have sensitive data stolen — names, SSIDs, home addresses and more taken in attack on nonprofit
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California Department of Education third-party partner falls victim to a data breach attack

An estimated three years' worth of students (5.7 million per year) likely affected

It seems access was obtained by a simple password theft

Malwarebytes has reported that millions of current and former California public school students have had their sensitive personal information stole following a massive data breach.

The breach occurred in a Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) system used by Educational Testing Service (ETS) – a…

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