NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The personal data of about 820,000 New York City public school students was compromised in a hack of the software the Department of Education uses to track attendance, grades, behavioral record and other sensitive information.
The hack of Illuminate Education, the company that the DOE pays for access to the IO Classroom, Skedula and Pupilpath services, shut down public schools’ access to student tracking software for a week in January, the New York Daily News reported.
Family financial information and social security numbers were not leaked, but other sensitive information like names, birthdays, free lunch enrollment and special education status were compromised.
Public school students who were enrolled as far back as 2016 could have been affected by the breach.
The DOE plans to notify the families of all affected students.
The city paid Illuminate Education $16 million over the course of the last three years, the New York Post reported.
Education officials claim the California company failed to encrypt its student tracking platforms and the department plans to investigate the company’s claim that it has increased security
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