Personal data of 820,000 NYC students compromised in hack

The personal data of about 820,000 current and former New York City public school students was compromised in a January hack.

The breach of Illuminate Education, a taxpayer-funded software company the city’s Department of Education uses to track grades and attendance, resulted in a hacker gaining access to students’ names, birthdays, ethnicities and English-speaking, special-education and free-lunch statuses, sources said.

The students’ social security numbers and family financial information were not collected by the DOE and were not compromised, according to the sources...

https://nypost.com/2022/03/26/nyc-students-have-personal-data-hacked/