My school sever got hacked...

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Well my school sever go hacked taking some people info (including mine)and blocking them from getting on. So today when I was trying to get on a message came up and saying that it had been blocked, or removed. I told the teacher she sent me to the princpal then he told me that everything that had to due wiht some kids and me got remove. Then he says that what we happen because of linux. then he told me that it is open source, so now it seems like my info is not at my school. Can I sue them????

Open source has to do with the software license and has nothing to do with whether or not something is secure.

And you can't sue them because minors aren't allowed to sue.

Sounds like someone (probably accidentally) deleted some entries from the database. They'll be looking for a new job soon.

And yeah doesn't sound like any secure information was leaked just lost.

No but their parents are, they could sue the school for allowing their child's personal infomation to be misused depending where they live no doubt. The school have a a legal responsability for children while they are in their care and parents can sue for neglect of this.

The tech coordinator probaly deleted it to save disk space. Had that happen to me my sophomore year. The principal probaly blames it on open-source software due to the fact that viruses can get around linux due to the fact that most school systems have windows computers domained to a server with McAfee or Symantec. However a computer can't be domained in linux and if you could those corporate security progtams above won't run in linux.


Which is the other reason a lot of school districts[Including mine[ ban firefox and don't let facality and students use home computers.