LIBERTY, Kentucky. A former elementary school principal, and proprietor of Frysc Connect and Rick’s Computer Enterprise in Liberty, Kentucky posted a file online which appeared to contain 2,377 names, including 1,291 of his former students’ social security numbers, dates of birth, ethnicities, addresses, phone numbers, guardians’ names and other personal information. Rick claimed that he scrambled names and other information so they no longer matched. Though some of the information had apparently been scrambled, much had not.
For example, the Liberty Coalition was able to contact a few students and parents on the list by calling home phone numbers listed, and some parents’ names still matched children’s names. Because the file had been used for years for training purposes, unfortunately there is no way to determine how much of the information had been scrambled.
Even if most of the information had been scrambled, it is alarming that educators have easy access to so much children’s sensitive personal information, and that some feel free to copy it for their own use.
The file had been shared and used for more than six years to train school employees on his product called “The Ultimate FRC/YSC Toolkit,” a software package designed to help school districts manage student personal information. All of the individuals affected by this breach live in the small town of Liberty, Kentucky. Parents who find their own names on ssnbreach.org, but fail to find one of their children’s names, may assume that the child’s record had been scrambled.
You can confirm whether you were affected by this breach by searching for your name at www.ssnbreach.org.
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SSNBreach.org does NOT contain sensitive data, such as Social Security Numbers (SSN), Birth Dates, Addresses, and the like. Consequently, there is no way to search for your SSN or any other type of sensitive data on SSNBreach.org. Instead of storing sensitive information, we document what information was exposed, and the situation surrounding the breach. This information allows victims to further investigate, take action, or correct any harm from the exposure.