🏆 New Achievement! Secured File Transfer Protocol, Presumably!
Here, in the managed wilderness of standardized testing infrastructure, we observe the ETS secure SFTP site in its final moments before unauthorized hands accessed it and copied student information belonging to California families. Much like the dodo, the secure perimeter did not recognize the threat until the ecosystem had already collapsed around it. (1/3)
Educational Testing Service, a nonprofit under contract with the California Department of Education, has begun notifying affected students and families. CDE is distributing the official Notice of Data Breach to assist those caught in the quiet devastation. The perpetrators remain unknown — ghost predators, undocumented in the field guide.
Review the ETS Notice of Data Breach to understand what information was affected and what protective steps are recommended. (2/3)
