Wallingford school suffers data breach compromising students’ personal information

• The security breach affected a tool that the school district previously used to track student reading and math assessments.
• The compromised information includes students’ names, dates of birth and email addresses.

What happened?

Wallingford school suffered a data breach compromising students’ personal information due to a third-party vendor security breach.

The security breach affected a tool that the school district previously used to track student reading and math assessments.

What information was compromised?

• The compromised information includes students’ names, dates of birth and email addresses.
• However, no Social Security numbers, credit card information, grades or assessment information were involved in the breach.

What was the response?

• Upon discovery, the third-party vendor, Pearson Clinical Assessment notified the school district about the incident.
• It also hired independent cybersecurity experts and conducted an extensive investigation of the incident.
• The investigation revealed that there has been no misuse of any student information.
• Pearson Clinical Assessment is offering free credit-monitoring services to all impacted students.

“Beginning immediately after discovery, Pearson launched an incident review by outside cybersecurity experts who determined the nature and extent of any data potentially affected. Pearson has received no evidence to indicate that there has been any misuse of (student) information,” Danielle Bellizzi, Assistant School Superintendent said in an email notification, myrecordjournal reported.