The Epoch Times Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has revealed that nearly half a million students and over 50,000 staff members have fallen prey to a massive data breach involving the theft of personal information via a ransomware attack.
A technology vendor for CPS called Battelle for Kids notified the school district that, on Dec. 1, 2021, an unauthorized party gained access to 495,448 student records and 56,138 staff records, according to a May 20 statement from CPS.
The stolen student records span a four-year period from 2015 to 2019 and include name, date of birth, gender, grade level, school, student ID number, information about the courses students had taken, and student scores from performance tasks used for teacher evaluations…
