Within the past two months, two of the nation’s five largest school districts have experienced a significant data breach via a vendor, said Doug Levin, national director of K12 Security Information Exchange, or K12 SIX, a nonprofit organization that aims to protect schools from cybersecurity threats.
In March, the New York City Department of Education said 820,000 current and former public school students’ personally identifiable information had been compromised. The department discovered in March that the breach happened due to a January cyberattack on vendor Illuminate Education, a California-based company that provides software to track grades and attendance.
