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Breach Record

New York City Department of Education

DISCLOSED 2023-05-31 · UNPATCHED CVE · 45,000 RECORDS EXPOSED · RANSOMWARE

The New York City Department of Education suffered a data breach affecting up to 45,000 students after the Clop ransomware gang exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit file transfer software. The attackers accessed the server on May 31, 2023, and stole sensitive information including names, dates of birth, student ID numbers, and in some cases special education and...

The record

What we know

Disclosed
2023-05-31
Attack vector
Unpatched Cve
Sector
Education
Country
United States
Records exposed
45,000
Data classes exposed
namesdates of birthstudent ID numbersspecial education recordsmedical information
RANSOMWARE
ColdRecon assessment

Could a positive-security control have prevented this?

Verdict · unclear · opinion

The attack exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit server software, not an endpoint compromise. A positive-security model on the server might have detected unauthorized changes, but the article does not provide enough detail on the server's configuration to assess whether such a model would have prevented the exploitation.

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