Spokane Public Schools breach exposes student and staff data
A cybersecurity incident at Spokane Public Schools in the US took online systems offline. The district raised the possibility that student and staff information had been compromised, and the exposure of that information was later confirmed. The scale of the damage and the specific attack method have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Spokane Public Schools
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Exposure of student and staff information; online systems outage
- Cause / method
- Network security breach
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- A cybersecurity incident caused a continuing outage of Spokane Public Schools' online systems.
- The district raised the possibility that student and staff information had been compromised.
- It was confirmed that student and staff information was exposed in a data breach.
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