Palo Alto Unified School District

Palo Alto Unified School District

Palo Alto school district suffered from a data breach incident that exposed 14,000 students' personal information.

The compromised information includes names, addresses, birth dates, and test scores of 14,000 current and former students.

After learning of the breach, Schoolzilla "immediately took the action and fixed the error.

Source: https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2017/04/20/pausd-student-data-exposed-in-data-breach

TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/palo-alto-unified-school-district

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"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with internal employee data leaks"
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