The Daily Dot reports that earlier this month 1.3 million K-12 students' personal information was exposed in a data breach of data warehouse platform Schoolzilla. Originally discovered by security researcher Chris Vickery, a "file configuration error" led to the exposure of the student data, including the Social Security numbers of some. Vickery did not produce evidence of the breach because he deleted the database from his own computer. "The sheer volume of private student data, including (test) scores and Social Security numbers for children, convinced me that it should be purged from my storage in an expedited fashion." Vickery did applaud Schoolzilla's quick actions to fix the error that led to the breach. 
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