AccidentalMisconfigurationSupply Chain (3P Vendor)Customer Data InvolvedEmployee Data InvolvedIDENTITY_BASICEDUCATIONMINORHighResolved
Palo Alto Unified School District
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Full breach record for Palo Alto Unified School District →Palo Alto Unified School District notified students and parents that a configuration error at former vendor Schoolzilla exposed backup files containing partial student records for approximately 14,000 students. The data included names, addresses, birth dates, and test scores. A security researcher discovered the exposure on April 4, 2017, and deleted the data. No SSNs or passwords were involved.
California clockDiscovered Apr 4, 2017 → Notified Apr 17, 201713d ✓ CA 60-day OK27 days discovery → filing
Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed14,000 affectedView incident
Source provenance
- Source URL
- https://oag.ca.gov/ecrime/databreach/reports/sb24-67904
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
- Filed at
- May 1, 2017
- Raw hash
- b204338354fede7ed8045ebc24a90fd0d2af5c1067b3ebe4f82c75d4208e7819
Reporting entity
- Name
- Palo Alto Unified School Districtnorm: palo alto unified school district
- Domain
- pausd.org
Victim entity
- Name
- Palo Alto Unified School Districtnorm: palo alto unified school district
- Domain
- pausd.org
Incident
- Discovered
- Apr 4, 2017
- Materiality determined
- —
- Notification sent
- Apr 17, 2017
- Affected individuals
- 14,000
- Data types
- IDENTITY_BASICEDUCATIONMINOR
- Attack vector
- Misconfiguration
- Threat actor
- External
- Regulator citations
- Reported to the California Attorney GeneralContacted the US Department of Education’s Privacy Technical Assistance Center
- Third party
- via Schoolzilla
Compliance
- Time to disclose
- 27 days(27 days from discovery to filing)
- Compliance flags
- CA 60-day OK · 13d
- Discovery-date grounding
- letter-groundedThe discovery date is the detection date narrated in the notification letter — the defensible tier.
- Clock breakdown
Statute Window Elapsed Threshold Status California Discovered: Apr 4, 2017→ Notified: Apr 17, 201713d 60 days (analyst band, pre-2026 discoveries) CA 60-day OK
Extraction provenance
- Status
- No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.