The personal data of about 820,000 current and former New York City public school students was compromised in a January hack.
The breach of Illuminate, a taxpayer-funded software company the city’s Department of Education uses to track grades and attendance, resulted in a hacker gaining access to students’ names, birthdays, ethnicities and English-speaking, special-education and free-lunch statuses, sources said.
The students’ social security numbers and family financial information were not collected by the DOE and were not compromised, according to the sources.
Education officials on Friday accused Illuminate of failing to encrypt its IO Classroom, Skedula and Pupilpath platforms.
“We are outraged that Illuminate represented to us
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