Whitby High School suffered a data breach incident recently in January 2022.
Dozens of parents affected in the breach received scam emails from a sender pretending to be from the school.
The school immediately took the actions and informed the parents and guardians to check the sender of the email before opening any links or downloading attachments.
Source: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/parents-warned-after-data-breach-22865428
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/the-whitby-high-school
"id": "the171519422",
"linkid": "the-whitby-high-school",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "01/2022",
"severity": "90",
"impact": "4",
"explanation": "Attack with significant impact with customers data leaks"{'affected_entities': [{'customers_affected': 'Dozens of parents',
'industry': 'Education',
'name': 'Whitby High School',
'type': 'Educational Institution'}],
'attack_vector': 'Phishing',
'customer_advisories': ['Informed parents and guardians to check the sender '
'of the email before opening any links or downloading '
'attachments'],
'data_breach': {'type_of_data_compromised': ['Emails']},
'date_detected': 'January 2022',
'description': 'Whitby High School suffered a data breach incident recently '
'in January 2022. Dozens of parents affected in the breach '
'received scam emails from a sender pretending to be from the '
'school. The school immediately took actions and informed the '
'parents and guardians to check the sender of the email before '
'opening any links or downloading attachments.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Emails']},
'initial_access_broker': {'entry_point': 'Phishing emails'},
'response': {'communication_strategy': ['Informed parents and guardians'],
'containment_measures': ['Informed parents and guardians to '
'check the sender of the email before '
'opening any links or downloading '
'attachments']},
'title': 'Whitby High School Data Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach'}