Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Charity GetSchooled Breaches 900k Children’s Details

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Charity GetSchooled Breaches 900k Children’s Details
December 29, 2020
https://welpmagazine.com/bill-melin...-getschooled-breaches-900k-childrens-details/

The Financial Times was the first to break this story earlier today (29th December 2020).

This breach occurred when GetSchooled (getschooled.com), a charity founded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in collaboration with Viacom left a database open and accessible to anyone with a browser and internet connection.
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According to TurgenSec: The breach impacts 930k individuals, composed of children (10-16y/o), some young adults and some college students.

The breached information contains extensive personal details of children, teenagers and young adults including: full addresses, schools, full student PII including student phone numbers and emails, graduation details, ages, genders and more…
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GetSchooled Response
According to the Financial Times: Get Schooled disputed the size of the breach, saying it believed that about 250,000 accounts were left exposed. It said that under a third of those accounts, around 75,000, were linked to email addresses that remain active. It estimated that about 20,000 phone numbers and 12,000 mailing addresses could have been accessed, but said no birth dates or financial details were included in the database.
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