The Interboro School District, which serves Glenolden, Norwood, Prospect Park, and Tinicum, said Friday that hackers got access to personal information on students, teachers, and other staff in an October cyberattack, writes Jadon George for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
A notice about the attack was posted to the district’s website and emailed to the Inquirer by the Devon-based law firm Mullen Coughlin, which handles data breach cases.
According to the notice, “an authorized party” downloaded personal information from a database housing “past and present student, staff, and employees.”
Stolen information may include Social Security numbers, financial account details, insurance information, and other sensitive personal data.
“Please note that we are not aware of any actual or attempted identity theft or fraud as a result of this event,” the district wrote in the statement.
The district advised potential victims of hacking to monitor their credit reports and bank accounts for suspicious activity.
On October 28, the district canceled classes due to multiple internet outages and interruptions, which it attributed to “unusual network activity.” The outages were investigated as a possible ransomware attack.
The cybercrime group RansomHub claimed responsibility for the attack on Nov. 19.
Find out more about the hack in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
