TN: Data breach delays start of Sumner County school year
Sumner County Schools in Tennessee discovered a data breach in its computer network this week, prompting district officials to delay the start of the school year while they work to resolve the problem before students return.
Why this matters: A school district holding enough sensitive data to cancel the school year is worth paying attention to. Districts collect Social Security numbers, health records, disciplinary files, and family information on children who have no say in the matter. When that gets breached, kids and parents cannot opt out of the fallout. The delay buys time to fix systems, but it does not answer the harder question: what data was exposed, whose, and what happens to it now.
Who should care: Cybersecurity · Privacy officers · Administrators
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