Brooklyn Tech students uncovered a NYC schools data breach.
Pooja Salhotra reports:
Teachers’ social security numbers, student academic records, and families’ home addresses are among the dozens of pieces of information a group of tech savvy high school students stumbled across on Google Drive this year.
The documents — many of which contained confidential information — were leaked because of a quirk in the education department’s Google Drive sharing settings, a group of Brooklyn Technical High School students found.
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