California Department of Education (CDE)

Force in Play

Notifying affected families and reviewing ETS compliance

An attacker used a stolen login to spend nearly four months copying files from a server run by Educational Testing Service (ETS), the nonprofit that administers California's standardized tests. The files covered every student enrolled in California public schools over the past three school years — roughly 7 million current and former students with names, addresses, birth dates, and disability status.

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