School District 42 data breach: 18K accounts exposed
Severity: medium · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2023-02-02
In January 2023, Pitt Meadows School District 42 in British Columbia suffered a data breach. The incident exposed the names and email addresses of approximately 19k students and staff which were consequently redistributed on a popular hacking forum. Exposed data: email addresses, names. The breach dates from Jan 15, 2023; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Feb 2, 2023.
What to do
- If you had a School District 42 account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
Sources
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