The biggest teachers’ union in Texas and the entire U.S. suffered a data breach affecting the details of over 400,000 individuals.
Recently, The Association of Texas Professional Educators alerted the state regarding the incident in a report on data security breaches submitted to the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
Here is some of what Megan Cardona reported on the data breach for KERA:
The compromised data includes some employees’ and members’ names, addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth, and driver’s license numbers.
A notice issued by ATPE said some members’ medical records were compromised if they transmitted that information to the association. Members who received a payment from ATPE through an ACH transaction may have had their financial account information compromised as well.
While the data breach report was published to the Texas and Maine attorney general offices in June, ATPE posted a notice of the breach on April 12.
According to the notice, ATPE became aware of “suspicious activities” on its network on Feb. 12. A forensic investigation completed March 20 found evidence that some of ATPE’s systems were accessed by an unauthorized user.
ATPE has not been the only organization hit with a significant data breach this year.
To read more on the data breach, click HERE.