LAUSD hacked, data extracted, but less than feared

Both ABC7 and KTLA in Los Angeles have been tweeting stories about a breach at Los Angeles Unified School District.

• LAUSD superintendent says hackers did not obtain highly sensitive student, employee data ABC7
• ‘No evidence of widespread impact,’ LAUSD says of data released by hackers KTLA Los Angeles

One article says that no major data was accessed that could be linked to the students while the other says that student data was accessed, but not sensitive data like SSN, medical issues and the like. I’m going to give you both articles so you can read them both.

ABC7 has a video of the press conference held today.

The JRN has no further information, and while I, Jared was part of LAUSD, it isn’t clear to me that this goes back many years.

The KABC article indicates that about 500mb of data was released, enough to fill a personal computer. Question: does the super intendent of LAUSD realize that PC computers today come with at least a gig hard drive? My last PC came with a 300mb main drive, but that is mainly for the operating system. A larger drive holds my data.

I could in theory call and inquire on whether the data is years back, at least 20 years or more. That’s all the JRN could do.

From KNX’s coverage titled No evidence hackers took ‘sensitive’ information, LAUSD superintendent says the syndicate was named as the “vice society” and the same basic info was given about the data and coverage as the other two articles.

All articles indicate that the initial intrusion took place over Labor Day Weekend and was detected and systems shut down.

I’m putting this out for those who may not be aware of the news, and I hope that more news can come out in regards to this.