According to sources, Woodlake Unified District (a Education organization in California) was hit with a cyber attack. It was first reported on 2021-10-26.

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Source 1  |  2021-10-26

CA: Woodlake Unified District student and personnel data dumped after ransomware incident

“-" On April 11, the district took to Facebook to alert the community to a ransomware incident that occurred on April 9. For months, the breach did not show up anywhere, but on September 13, Pysa threat actors added it to their leak site, noting the incident as April 8." -" the data dump seemingly should have contained 77 parts that included more than 16 GB of files, compressed." -"We found files containing the names and surnames of the students with their date of birth and social security numbers. Some spreadsheets contained students’ email addresses and passwords." -"date and the name of the student with other special education-related information for the students." -". Some files had employees’ names with social security numbers as well as other personally identifiable information. We also found some personnel issues such as complaints about individuals or investigations." -"information on employees from the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 included injury status reports with fields like: Employee Name, Social Security Name, Date of Birth, Address, Phone, Gender, Job Title, Date of Injury, Time, Specific Injury, Supervisors Comments. In other files, there were medical reports related to claims such as physician statements and disability forms." “

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