The names and e-mail addresses of parents and teachers of 127 primary and secondary schools were leaked after a mobile platform on students’ personal learning devices was hacked, said the Ministry of Education (MOE) on April 19. Mobile Guardian’s user management portal...
The Mobile Guardian app, installed on students’ personal learning devices, was appointed as MOE’s official mobile device management services vendor in November 2020.The names and e-mail addresses of parents and teachers of 127 primary and secondary schools were leaked after a mobile platform on students’ personal learning devices was hacked, said the Ministry of Education on April 19.
The Mobile Guardian app, which is installed on personal learning devices including Chromebook laptops and Apple’s iPad tablets, helps parents manage their children’s device use and restrict specific websites, apps and screen time. MOE said its own device management platform was not compromised and remains available for parents’ use on the students’ ChromeOS or iOS learning devices.
MOE, she added, was notified by Mobile Guardian about the leak on April 17, and MOE has lodged a police report. It also and expressed its concerns to the device management software firm.
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