The American Teachers Union says that the infiltrators stole sensitive personal data on more than 500,000 members

Pesea, a labor union representing teachers throughout the state, says that infiltrators stole sensitive personal information for more than half a million of its members.

Psea is the largest teacher organization in Pennsylvania, and represents the current and former teachers, consultants, health care workers and social workers in schools.

in Submit a file with the public prosecutor in Maine on TuesdayPsea said it had witnessed an electronic attack in July 2024, which witnessed an unauthorized actor reaching his network to steal a group of data that belongs to more than 517,000 individuals.

The stolen data includes very sensitive personal information, such as the government’s identity documents, social security numbers, passport numbers, medical information, financial information that contains card numbers, their associated pins and expiration dates.

Psea said that the numbers of member accounts, pins, passwords, and safety symbols were reached during the breach, according to a message sent to affected individuals.

“We want to confirm that not all data elements have been obtained for each person affected,” Psea told members affected in the letter.

Psea also said that she “took steps, with the best of our ability and knowledge, to ensure the deletion of the data taken by the unauthorized actor,” which means that Psea was the goal of A. ransom or Black data The attack, after which the ransom request was paid to the infiltrators responsible.

Payment of the demand for a ransom does not guarantee that the singers deleted the stolen data. Last year, the notorious Ranomwari gang Evidence of discovery The infiltrators in the gang are still keeping the Reams data for the victims who paid a ransom request.

Psea did not answer Techcrunch questions.