{"id":421799,"date":"2022-03-26T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T07:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-students-have-personal-data-hacked\/"},"modified":"2022-03-26T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T07:26:12","slug":"nyc-students-have-personal-data-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-students-have-personal-data-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC students have personal data hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e5fc8ed333\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e5fc8ed333\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-students-have-personal-data-hacked\/#%E2%80%9CNYC_students_have_personal_data_hacked%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;NYC students have personal data hacked&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CNYC_students_have_personal_data_hacked%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;NYC students have personal data hacked&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The personal data of about 820,000 current and former New York City public school students was compromised in a January hack.<\/p>\n<p>The breach of Illuminate, a taxpayer-funded software company the city\u2019s Department of Education uses to track grades and attendance, resulted in a hacker gaining access to students\u2019 names, birthdays, ethnicities and English-speaking, special-education and free-lunch statuses, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The students\u2019<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> security numbers and family financial information were not collected by the DOE and were not compromised, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>Education officials on Friday accused Illuminate of failing to encrypt its IO Classroom, Skedula and Pupilpath platforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are outraged that Illuminate represented to us and schools that legally required, industry standard critical safeguards were in place when they were not,\u201d Chancellor David Banks told The Post, while calling for city, state and federal investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The DOE said it would send letters to families affected by the breach. The information compromised in the hack dated back to the 2016-17 school year, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The department will also investigate Illuminate\u2019s claim that it had increased safeguards. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/school-children-hack-778.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The students' social security numbers and family financial information were not taken by the DOE, according to sources.\" class=\"wp-image-21668729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/school-children-hack-778.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/school-children-hack-778.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/school-children-hack-778.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The students\u2019 social security numbers and family financial information were not taken by the DOE, according to sources.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images\/Image Source<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Schools could continue using the California company\u2019s services until the end of the year before re-evaluating its contracts for the 2022-23 school year, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>Bobson Wong, a math teacher at a high school in Queens who frequently uses Skedula to connect with parents, said he needed to continue using the platform unless provided with another option.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like using it, but I have to use it. I don\u2019t really have a choice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The hacked platforms forced the school to be without its grading and attendance systems for a week in January, causing teachers to lose track of which kids were exposed to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Skedula went down, my students\u2019 grades went down,\u201d Wong said. \u201cMy students\u2019 homework completion went down by 20 to 30 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/school-children-hack-777-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Leonie Haimson claimed the organization was concerned that the release of students' information could affect their futures in a negative way.\" class=\"wp-image-21668787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/school-children-hack-777-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/school-children-hack-777-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/school-children-hack-777-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Leonie Haimson claimed the organization was concerned that the release of students\u2019 information could affect their futures in a negative way.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Kristy Leibowitz<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Leonie Haimson, who co-chairs the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy, told The Post her organization was concerned that the release of students\u2019 sensitive information could negatively affect their futures.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates have been \u201chaggling\u201d with the city and state education departments for years about student privacy, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy feeling about this is that if the DOE is truly taking this seriously, as they should, they should both fine this vendor to the maximum amount \u2026 and cut off contracts with them,\u201d Haimson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a real watershed moment for the DOE, and actually the state education department, to prove that they\u2019re serious about protecting student privacy,\u201d she continued \u2014 and if they don\u2019t, \u201cThey will have proven that they\u2019re not responsible guardians of our children\u2019s privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Illuminate has raked in more than $16 million from DOE schools in the last three years, records show.<\/p>\n<p>The company was also linked to a scandal over ex-Chancellor Richard Carranza\u2019s hiring of a former vice president of Illuminate who had failed to divest from his former company when he took a $205,000-a-year city job in 2018.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/school-children-hack-776-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The company was linked to a scandal over ex-Chancellor Richard Carranza's hiring of a former vice president of Illuminate.\" class=\"wp-image-21668798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/school-children-hack-776-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/school-children-hack-776-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/school-children-hack-776-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The company was linked to a scandal over ex-Chancellor Richard Carranza\u2019s hiring of a former vice president of Illuminate.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Ed Reed\/Mayoral Photography Offi<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere is no evidence of any fraudulent or illegal activity related to this incident,\u201d Illuminate said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe security of the data we have in our care is one of our highest priorities, and we have already taken important steps to help prevent this from h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But for families whose private information could fall into the wrong hands, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> of the hack left them nervous for its repercussions. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Ellen McHugh, who co-heads the Citywide Council of Special Education, wondered what the breach entailed for students whose disability status could\u2019ve been accessed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the stuff that makes your stomach churn,\u201d Hugh said.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Apple public school district is the nation\u2019s largest, with approximately 1.1 students enrolled across the boroughs.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement that New York City \u201cwill not tolerate bad actors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[We] plan to hold Illuminate fully accountable for not providing our students with the security and timely notification the company promised,\u201d Adams said.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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