Data of 820,000 NYC students compromised in hack of online grading system: Education Dept.
The breach prompted a weekslong shutdown of grading and attendance systems in January, causing chaos at city schools. The hackers gained access to a database with the names, birthdays, ethnicities, home languages and student ID numbers of current and former public school students going back to the 2016-17 school year, Illuminate told the Education Department. Illuminate did not specify what categories of information were compromised for each of the 820,000 affected students.
The hackers also extracted information about whether students get special education services, class and teacher schedules, and whether kids receive free lunch, according to the Education Department.