A U.S. educational nonprofit has announced that nearly 900 schools using the organization’s services may have been affected by a recent data breach.
In a security issue update released this week, the National Student Clearinghouse revealed it is investigating a recent cybersecurity issue involving a vulnerability in one of The Clearinghouse’s third-party software tools, MOVEit Transfer, which has potentially affected thousands of other organizations worldwide. The cyberattack exploits a vulnerability in MOVEit, a widely-used third-party data transfer service used to send large files.