Email Mistake Costs Chicago School Employee a Job

guest · Jun 19, 2018

Email Mistake Costs Chicago School Employee a Job
June 19, 2018
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/email-mistake-costs-chicago-school/

A Chicago Public Schools (CPS) employee will be removed from their position after accidentally sending a mass email that included a link to a confidential spreadsheet on Friday evening, 15 June. The email exposed the private data of 3,700 students and families, according to the Chicago Tribune. The link, which wasn’t removed until Saturday morning, revealed students’ names, email addresses, phone numbers and student ID numbers.

While the error will cost the employee their job, there is a greater question of liability as the employee was able to access a file stored on Blackboard that contained sensitive information without any required login.

CPS reportedly had initially believed that the file was an attachment, and it asked parents to delete the file.
"To help ensure an improper disclosure of this nature does not occur again, we immediately put in place additional technical restrictions regarding personnel who can send messages of this nature," CPS continued.
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deBoetie · Jun 20, 2018

Convenient junior scapegoat to obscure inadequate systems. How come they were even able to access the data as a bulk spreadsheet (discounting whether they had to log on or not)?

mirimir · Jun 20, 2018

Yes, convenient scapegoat.

I wonder what happened to the "Hawaii nuke alert" guy.

guest · Jun 21, 2018

the IT guy should be fired and the poor dude rewarded for disclosing a "vulnerability" LOL

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