The MOVEit transfer flaw was used to compromise the New York City Department of Education (DOE), revealing the personal information of almost 45,000 city students.
According to the DOE’s incident report, the attack exposed sensitive information about students, personnel, and connected service providers.
After discovering the problem, the department immediately patched it and shut down the servers. The MOVEit transfer flaw allowed hackers to gain access to and download the data kept there, and the DOE was one of many organizations that it affected read more MOVEit breach exposes data of 45000 New York City students.
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