Greenville County Schools student data leaks from third-party software
SpilloverSpillover from the Frontline Education incident · View original incident →Third-party software from Frontline Education, which Greenville County Schools uses for school health records and Medicaid billing, was breached. Current students' and graduates' names, student ID numbers, dates of birth, Medicaid billing numbers and other data were exposed. Affected students are being offered 24 months of identity protection services.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Greenville County Schools
- Original incident
- Frontline Education hack exposes data on more than 3.08 million people
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Names, student ID numbers, dates of birth, Medicaid billing numbers and other data of current students and graduates
- Cause / method
- Breach of Frontline's third-party software for school health records and Medicaid billing
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It was reported that Greenville County Schools students whose data was exposed in the Frontline breach are being offered 24 months of identity protection services.
Original incident
This is spillover from the Frontline Education incident.
Frontline Education hack exposes data on more than 3.08 million people
3.1MImpact: Personal information of 3,085,266 students and staff members
Unauthorized access exploiting a vulnerability in third-party software occurred at Frontline Education on August 14–15, resulting in the theft of information on students and staff in U.S. school districts. Affected data from Frontline Central and school health management services included names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, government-issued identification numbers, Medicaid and student identification numbers, and school health and billing records. Individual notifications have begun, and at least six class-action lawsuits are underway. A filing in Indiana confirmed that 3,085,266 people were affected.
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