Unauthorised access to Northern Ireland school app Equipple raises data exposure concerns
Unauthorised access was discovered in the cloud environment of Equipple, an app used by schools in Northern Ireland to book parent-teacher meetings. Parents’ contact details and pupils’ names, dates of birth and enrolment groups may have been exposed, but the exact number of people affected was not disclosed. Parents were advised to be alert to unexpected emails or phone calls.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Equipple
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Unauthorised access to the app’s cloud environment
- Location
- United Kingdom
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- Parents were advised to watch for suspicious emails and phone calls following a data breach involving a Northern Ireland school app used by around 50,000 people.
- Unauthorised access to Equipple’s cloud environment and the possible exposure of parent and pupil information were reported.
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