"Student Medical Records Exposed After LAUSD Breach"

On February 22, the education news site The 74 Million reported that the hacker group Vice Society had posted hundreds of psychiatric evaluations of special education students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The leaked data is said to contain personal information such as names, diagnoses, family immigration status, and information on physical and sexual abuse. When a hospital system allows such information to become public, it faces fines and other consequences under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). However, when a school exposes such information, the breach is covered by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which means individual parents are responsible for filing complaints. This article continues to discuss the exposure of student medical records due to an LAUSD breach.

Dark Reading reports "Student Medical Records Exposed After LAUSD Breach"