The California Office of the Attorney General reported a data breach involving ABC Unified School District on June 5, 2020. The breach occurred on November 4, 2019, impacting the Aeries Portal, with exposed information including parent names, student names, student IDs, physical addresses, email addresses, and password hashes. Law enforcement agencies are investigating, and the District revoked all Aeries Portal passwords requiring users to reset them.
Source: https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-190664
TPRM report: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/abcunifiedschooldistrict
"id": "abc315072825",
"linkid": "abcunifiedschooldistrict",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "11/2019",
"severity": "85",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Education',
'location': 'California',
'name': 'ABC Unified School District',
'type': 'Educational Institution'}],
'data_breach': {'personally_identifiable_information': ['parent names',
'student names',
'student IDs',
'physical addresses',
'email addresses'],
'type_of_data_compromised': ['parent names',
'student names',
'student IDs',
'physical addresses',
'email addresses',
'password hashes']},
'date_detected': '2020-06-05',
'date_publicly_disclosed': '2020-06-05',
'description': 'The California Office of the Attorney General reported a data '
'breach involving ABC Unified School District on June 5, 2020. '
'The breach occurred on November 4, 2019, impacting the Aeries '
'Portal, with exposed information including parent names, '
'student names, student IDs, physical addresses, email '
'addresses, and password hashes. Law enforcement agencies are '
'investigating, and the District revoked all Aeries Portal '
'passwords requiring users to reset them.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['parent names',
'student names',
'student IDs',
'physical addresses',
'email addresses',
'password hashes'],
'systems_affected': ['Aeries Portal']},
'investigation_status': 'Ongoing',
'references': [{'date_accessed': '2020-06-05',
'source': 'California Office of the Attorney General'}],
'response': {'containment_measures': ['Revoked all Aeries Portal passwords',
'Required users to reset passwords'],
'law_enforcement_notified': True},
'title': 'Data Breach at ABC Unified School District',
'type': 'Data Breach'}