What a week for cybersecurity nerds—they’ve had to deal with several red-alert situations, including one that affected over half the internet. (Never heard of PHP before in your life? You probably have now.)
But buried under articles about compromises and hijinks was news directly affecting consumers. Here in my home state of California, word finally spread widely about a student data leak, stolen from a server owned by the state’s testing division.
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Lost data includes student names, dates of birth, home addresses, grade levels, affiliated schools, state-issued and local student identifier numbers, gender, ethnicity, primary language, disability and testing accommodations, and more. The California Department of Education says that social security, driver’s license, and passport numbers were not stolen. Financial account details, credit and debit card info, account passwords, and parent/guardian info were also not part of the breach.
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