ETS Data Breach Exposes Current and Former California Students’ Records
A data breach at Educational Testing Service (ETS) exposed the records of current and former students in California. The sensitive records exposed included material dating back to 2023. A lawsuit was filed against ETS over the incident.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Educational Testing Service (ETS)
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Records of current and former students in California
- Cause / method
- Not confirmed
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
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Timeline
- A data breach at ETS was reported.
- It was reported that ETS had been sued over a data breach affecting current and former students in California.
- Following the ETS incident, experts called for stronger cybersecurity in K–12 education.
- It was revealed that the sensitive student records exposed included records from 2023.
Also affected by this incident
Data breach may affect over 37,000 current and former Jefferson County Public Schools employees
↳ Knock-on damage from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) incident · View original incident37KImpact: More than 37,000 current and former employees potentially affected
More than 37,000 current and former employees of Jefferson County Public Schools may have been affected by a data breach. The school district said that this number of current and former employees were potentially affected.
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