"Denver Public Schools Data Breach Includes SSNs, Bank Info"

On January 4th, Colorado's largest school district discovered that it was affected by a data breach.  The district is now informing all employees.  According to Denver Public Schools, the data breach occurred between December 13th and January 13th, when "an unauthorized actor accessed and/or took certain files" stored on the district's computer servers.  The school noted that the files included personal information, such as names and Social Security numbers of current and former participants in the district's health plan, employee fingerprints, bank account numbers, student identification numbers, driver's license numbers, passport numbers, and more.  According to DPS, all DPS employees were affected by the incident.  The district noted that it has no indications that the personal identifiable information of students was accessed.  DPS is Colorado's largest school district and employs 15,000 workers.

Government Technology reports: "Denver Public Schools Data Breach Includes SSNs, Bank Info"