{"id":754,"date":"2023-05-14T01:56:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T06:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kentprotect.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2023-05-14T02:28:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T07:28:16","slug":"breach-report-brightly-data-breach-affects-3-million-schooldude-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kentprotect.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/14\/breach-report-brightly-data-breach-affects-3-million-schooldude-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Breach Report: Brightly data breach affects ~3 million SchoolDude accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>One-sentence summary: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brightly Software, a child company of Siemens, via their SchoolDude platform, was breached in March 2023, affecting almost 3 million accounts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Who was involved?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brightly Software, Inc. (a subsidiary of Siemens), SchoolDude, 2,964,292 SchoolDude accounts, and a threat actor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What was the timeline?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 20, 2023: Breach starts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April 28, 2023: Brightly detects the breach <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May 11, 2023: Brightly begins consumer notification <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What occurred?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brightly Software&#8217;s SchoolDude user database was breached in April 2023, resulting in the potential disclosure of the following information for over 2,964,292 SchoolDude accounts: &#8220;name, email address, account password, phone number (if added to the account), school district name&#8221; (Brightly Software, 2023, p. 1; Welling, 2023). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Estimated costs:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Associated incident response costs, breach notification costs, &#8220;industry-leading security experts&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Involved laws: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State: Maine: 10 M.R.S.A. \u00a7 1346<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Root cause: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TBA or N\/A (see disclaimer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lessons learned: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TBA or N\/A (see disclaimer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sources: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brightly Software. (2023). Incident Email_User_5.11.2023_Redacted.pdf. In <em>Data Breach Notifications<\/em>. Office of the Maine Attorney General. Retrieved May 14, 2023, from https:\/\/apps.web.maine.gov\/online\/aeviewer\/ME\/40\/5da35692-18a7-4cdf-acbe-5fe1a955e406.shtml<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brightly Software (thevpn guru). (2023, May). <em>Brightly-Software-Data-Breach.jpeg<\/em>. thevpn.guru. https:\/\/thevpn.guru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Brightly-Software-Data-Breach.jpeg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welling, M. (2023). Data Breach Notifications. In <em>Privacy, Identity Theft and Data Security Breaches<\/em>. Office of the Maine Attorney General. 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