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🏆 New Achievement! Standardized Test, Unstandardized Leak!

Splendid news, young scholar! Your quest begins today. Your objective: monitor for identity theft, report suspicious activity, and heed the California Department of Education's guidance. The catch — and here is the fun part — Educational Testing Service already spent several months handing your personal data to unknown parties before anyone thought to mention it. Every public school student in California. Every single one. (1/3)

ETS, the assessment contractor trusted with student data, quietly suffered a months-long breach before the CDE started issuing warnings last week.

Your mission is live. It was compromised before you accepted it. California residents should monitor for identity theft and follow CDE recommendations immediately.

Reward: You've received the Cursed Backpack of Unasked-For Exposure — contents: your data, somewhere out there. (2/3)