Nearly all data containing information about thousands of Eastern Cape schools, pupils and teachers were wiped out of a multimillion-rand digital filing system at the start of the year.
The company that installed and commissioned the Simplivity digital system costing estimated R20 million, found that between 20% and 30% of the data could not be recovered by the end of March.
These data included information about schools, pupils and teachers.
They would not be allocated resources this year, and that data collected last year could not be sent to the department of basic education in January, as required.
Pupils’ and teachers’ data were recovered from back-ups
Source: https://www.news24.com/citypress/News/eastern-capes-massive-schools-data-loss-20180630
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"type": "Data Leak",
"date": "07/2018",
"severity": "60",
"impact": "3",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Education',
'location': 'Eastern Cape',
'type': 'Educational Institutions'}],
'data_breach': {'type_of_data_compromised': ['School information',
'Pupil information',
'Teacher information']},
'date_detected': 'Start of the year',
'description': 'Nearly all data containing information about thousands of '
'Eastern Cape schools, pupils and teachers were wiped out of a '
'multimillion-rand digital filing system at the start of the '
'year.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Information about schools',
'Information about pupils',
'Information about teachers'],
'operational_impact': ['Resources not allocated this year',
'Data not sent to the department of basic '
'education in January'],
'systems_affected': ['Simplivity digital system']},
'response': {'remediation_measures': ['Data recovered from back-ups']},
'title': 'Data Wipeout Incident at Eastern Cape Schools',
'type': 'Data Loss'}