Personal information belonging to millions of current and former California public school students has been stolen from a system operated by Educational Testing Service (ETS).
ETS is a nonprofit organization that helps run the state’s standardized tests under contract with the California Department of Education (CDE). It has begun notifying students and families after an unauthorized party accessed and copied student information from an ETS-operated secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) site. CDE is distributing the ETS breach notice to help affected individuals receive information about the incident and available resources.
An investigation determined that an unauthorized party used compromised login details to access the site and copy files containing California student information at various times between May 22 and September 18.
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Source: MalwareBytes Labs
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