Whoa FCPS- data breach

[Anonymous]

FCPSMed is their medicaid reimbursement program and that would have SSNs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child doesn't have an IEP or 504. How did he get involved in this?? Is something in error in his file? I'm concerned about that as well. Can someone tell me what years she pulled so I can think of what could possibly be in his file.

Thanks!

We got one because one DC has a 504. Asked a friend and she only got one for her daughter who is in her second year of college — not for her kids currently in FCPS. Yikes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:33,000+ students: Nine spreadsheets listing all students divisionwide with IEPs or 504 Plans. Five list over 26,000 students and four list over 33,000 students.
10,000+ students: December 1 count spreadsheet
1,593 students: Academic advising spreadsheet for 9th and 10th grade students by PE classes and 11th grade students by History class
1,500+ students: 7,468 teacher recommendations and notes spreadsheet
1,400+ students: PSAT and PSAT NMSQT scores
1,000+ students: FCPSMed caseload, related services
1,000+ students: mental health tracking data, to include marking students with suicidal ideation, drug addiction, domestic violence at home, and so on.
1,000+ students: spreadsheet listing students and their intent to attend.
300+ students: spreadsheet of course requests for students, listing their primary disability and placement
200+ students: list of students with IEPs due.
150+ students: three spreadsheets of testing accommodations for sped students
150+ students: Grade 4-6 PE gradebook
100+ students: spreadsheet of sped and esol 1-6b students taking an SOL
100+ students: Three quarters of grades for sped students, pulled according to the sped teacher to whom they’re assigned.
100+ students: multiple spreadsheets listing legal matters
90 students: 2019 End of Year goal data
50+ students: Math eCart data
1: One FCPS state complaint response for a student
1: One heartbreaking email from a father, telling a school principal about his child being sexually assaulted
Also included in my kids' educational records:

Invoices
Budgets
Closed meeting minutes
Emails (toxic and otherwise)
Proof that some "leaders" have based special education-related decisions on how connected a parent is, rather than what's appropriate for the student (and what happens to be in line with federal regulations)

And a partridge in a pear tree…..

Where did you see this listed?

How in the WORLD did she not know she was getting tons of info that wasn’t hers? And how was she given the kind of access to a system where she could even DO this? This woman, who already was on FCPS’ radar as a troublemaker, should have never been allowed to sit down at a FCPS computer. Whatever files she needed they should have printed off for her.

It literally sounds like she was logged into someone’s computer profile and she just started dragging random files to her thumb drive as fast as she could before being checked. Which implies serious malfeasance on her part.

[Anonymous]

There is still a document on her website that is clearly about my child. There are plenty of identifying details where someone familiar with the school could spend 10 minutes on Google and identify my child.

Reid’s email is NOT being truthful with the community. While there is not identifying information about the majority of children whose parents received a letter on her website, there are still are plenty who have their private information out there.

[Anonymous]

on her website she tries to convince us that she's done no wrong. HOW DID SHE GET THE DATA? sounds to me like she put a thumb drive in a computer and illegally obtained data. does any one know EXACTLY how she got this data?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:on her website she tries to convince us that she's done no wrong. HOW DID SHE GET THE DATA? sounds to me like she put a thumb drive in a computer and illegally obtained data. does any one know EXACTLY how she got this data?

the office worker at FCPS gave her the data by mistake.

[Anonymous]

we got a letter bc our child, who does not have an IEP, had a class with her twin sons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:on her website she tries to convince us that she's done no wrong. HOW DID SHE GET THE DATA? sounds to me like she put a thumb drive in a computer and illegally obtained data. does any one know EXACTLY how she got this data?

the office worker at FCPS gave her the data by mistake.

so she stole the data. unless the fcps person handed her this data while not on fcps property, she comitted theft by leaving the premises with fcps property

[Anonymous]

I'm a bit confused. i received a letter but my child does not have an IEP, a 504, or receive counseling services??

[Anonymous]

When is FCPS going to pay families for the services approved during Covid? That would help stop some of the frustration with FCPS and the special needs community. They can't keep the data secure and can't pay the families the money due either but somehow have the time to give this woman all the data she requests and more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When is FCPS going to pay families for the services approved during Covid? That would help stop some of the frustration with FCPS and the special needs community. They can't keep the data secure and can't pay the families the money due either but somehow have the time to give this woman all the data she requests and more.

+3

[Anonymous]

They do what they want. They don’t care what kind of trouble they’re in. Have you seen how many times FCPS has been called out for FERPA violations? Over and over. It’s almost laughable. How did this happen again?

[Anonymous]

I received the letter, however my child is not IEP student. This makes me worry as what is n my child's file. Is there a way to get the child file? Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I received the letter, however my child is not IEP student. This makes me worry as what is n my child's file. Is there a way to get the child file? Thanks

I guess you can request it just like Oettinger did. Hope you get her kids info and then post it online.

[Anonymous]

a few hundred is a mistake, but 35,000 is not a simple mistake!