Ishikawa Prefectural Board of Education7 prefectural school websites

1MinorPossibleAnnounced Updated

Personal data of 138 people was viewable on websites of seven prefectural schools. Reports say 110 at a school for the blind had names, grades and attendance, and 28 at six others had names and birth dates. Files were deleted.

This incident was imported from a dataset that compiles public announcements, and we are still checking it against the sources. Counts and causes will be updated after the check. Sources are in Japanese.

Cause
Misconfiguration
Sector
Public sector
Operational impact
None

Data involved

DataStatusCountGroupEvidence
NameWas publicly accessible138 people—Source(opens in a new tab)
Date of birthWas publicly accessible28 people—Source(opens in a new tab)

Counts are the figures the organization announced. Because the same person may be counted more than once, we do not add the rows together.

What users should do

  • Watch for emails and texts pretending to be the company

General steps based on the type of data involved. Check the organization’s notice or help line to see whether you are affected.

Tools for this kind of attack

Picked from the cause of the incident: tools that help you check your own systems for the same kind of weakness, or spot the warning signs.

Prowler

Impact Reaches others
prowler-cloud/prowler

An audit tool that reads the configuration of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and other clouds and lists the settings that fail security standards.

Purpose
Audit
Type
Command line
Difficulty
Intermediate
License
PermissiveApache-2.0
Category
Containers and cloud
Actively updatedstars15,094Last update 2026-10-25
Read the Prowler review

Trivy

Impact Local only
aquasecurity/trivy

A scanner that finds vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and embedded secrets in container images, code, and Kubernetes.

Purpose
Defense
Type
Command line
Difficulty
Beginner
License
PermissiveApache-2.0
Category
Vulnerability scanning / Containers and cloud
Actively updatedstars38,703Last update 2026-10-23
Read the Trivy review

Sources

  1. 石川県立学校7校のウェブサイトで計138人分の個人情報が閲覧可能状態 職員の設定ミスwww.chunichi.co.jp · Published 2026-10-19(opens in a new tab)
  2. 盲学校110人情報漏えい 1月から氏名や成績、保護者名 石川県教委発表、教職員のミス原因news.yahoo.co.jp · Published 2026-10-20(opens in a new tab)