Security Breach Leaves School District Responsible For Loss of Personally Identifiable Information

In Eugene, Oregon, the Eugene School District is under speculation after a hacker attacked their computer servers. These servers contained personal information regarding previous and current employees of the school district, including Social Security numbers, direct-deposit bank account information, and other sensitive data that can be used to commit identity theft. It is believed that approximately 13,000 current and previous employees’ information is at risk.

A letter was sent to all previous and current employees by the Eugene School District, and the district is ensuring that at this time, they have no proof that the sensitive data was accessed, but they would rather be safe than sorry.

These computers were also connected to other servers that included student information, but there is no reason to believe that this data was accessed as well by the hackers.

In their letter, they encourage those who may be affected to sign up for credit monitoring services, just to be safe.