The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA), a labor association that represents teachers across the state, says hackers have stolen sensitive personal information for more than half a million of its members.
PSEA is the largest organization for teachers in Pennsylvania, representing today’s and former teachers, advisers, health care workers and school social workers.
In a deposit with Maine’s Attorney General on TuesdayPSEA said it experienced a Cyberettack in July 2024 to see an unauthorized actor accessing his network to steal a data stroke belonging to more than 517,000 people.
The stolen data includes extremely sensitive personal information, such as recognition documents issued by the members of the members, social security numbers, passport numbers, medical information and financial information containing card numbers and related pins and expiration dates.
PSEA said that the members’ account numbers, pins, passwords and security codes were also accessed during the breach, according to a letter sent to affected people.
“We want to emphasize that not all data details were obtained for each person influenced,” PSEA said in affected members in the letter.
PSEA also stated that “it has taken action, in the best possible way our ability and our knowledge, to ensure that the data received by the unauthorized actor was deleted”, implying that PSEA was the goal of an attack of ransomware or blackmail and subsequently made a ransom demand.
Paying a league demand is not a guarantee that malicious hackers delete the stolen data. Last year’s cessation by the infamous Ransomware Lockbit gang discovered that gang hackers were still maintaining reconstructions of data belonging to victims who had been rallying.
PSEA did not answer TechCrunch questions.
