Simon Says – Musings of a Technology CTO

This week, datalossdb.org reported the first major suspected PII breach of the year, reported by George Russel, Superintendant of the Eugene School District of Oregon. You can find the full story on the KVAL news site.

Apparently some suspicious activity was noticed on one of their internal servers, which was subsequently shut down and isolated before being analyzed. The server in question had PII related to around 2,500 individuals, but was connected to other servers containing records of 13,000 former employees of the school district, and around 13,000 vendors. Total possible exploit of around 26,000 records.
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