Millions of California students’ sensitive data stolen in breach

Personal information belonging to millions of current and former California public school students has been stolen from a system operated by Educational Testing Service (ETS). ETS is a nonprofit organization that helps run the state’s standardized tests under contract with the California Department of Education (CDE). It has begun notifying students and families after an unauthorized party accessed and copied student information from an ETS-operated secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) site.

Published 21-Oct-2026 05:57 UTC · First seen 21-Oct-2026 05:56 UTC

Sources

• Malwarebytes · 19-Oct-2026