Pueblo D70 fell victim to a data breach Heres whos affected

pPueblo County School District 70 is addressing a data breach and ransomware attack that may have compromised the personal information of former students as well as current and former staffppThe data breach is believed to have impacted a number of student records saved between 1991 and 2006 Past and present staff records also may have been compromised Pueblo D70 continues to investigate the full extent of the breachs impact according to a Wednesday news release from the school districtppThe district was notified of ransomware by the cybersecurity company Sophos on April 27 After a data breach was confirmed by the CIA on May 15 IT technicians and agents from Pueblo School District 60 Colorado State University Pueblo the CIA and the FBI began working with Pueblo D70 to identify what data had been leakedppI realize that the putting out of this information seems like its a little bit late but we werent allowed to get this information out because it was the CIA that was assisting us it wasnt something that we could have just immediately released Pueblo D70 Superintendent Ronda Rein said during a June 17 press conference on ZoomppPersonal information that may have been affected by the breach includes names phone numbers dates of birth and other data pertaining to some but not all individuals who were students or staff at Pueblo D70 during the specified time periodsppWe probably all have files on our computers that we need to go through periodically and delete and we didnt Rein said We have taken measures at this point to get rid of data and information Weve implemented a twostep authentication on our staff accountsppPueblo D70 has removed all of its critical information from local servers and onto cloudbased servers The district also is working to establish a monthly regimen of checkups with a cybersecurity company and hire a fulltime staff member responsible for cybersecurityppWeve limited the access to our district resources to USbased requests and weve narrowed our firewall and our VPN access to our admin staff only Rein saidppThe district has not received reports of information misuse but is advising students staff alumni and community members to monitor credit reports and financial statements consider restricting access to their credit report consider a fraud alert and protect themselves from suspicious communicationsppPueblo D70s IT support team may be contacted at 7195496121 for additional assistanceppTrump assassination attempt Lauren Boebert wants the Secret Service director held accountable for Trumps shootingppPueblo Chieftain reporter James Bartolo can be reached at JBartologannettcom Support local news subscribe to The Pueblo Chieftain at subscribechieftaincomp