A student impersonated the teacher to access data on the Educacyl portal.

A student at a school in the region stole the identity and password of a teacher on the Educacyl portal , allowing him to access data on students, teachers, and families on a website used by the educational community for all its daily and extraordinary tasks. The incident was explained yesterday by the Minister of Economy and Finance and spokesperson for the Regional Government, Carlos Fernández Carriedo, who acknowledged a security breach within the system , although he did not want to refer to it as a cyberattack, the term initially used when the events began to come to light.

Carriedo explained that the student had access to the portal's data, although he did not specify how much—only information from the classrooms assigned to the impersonated teacher or from the entire system—although he clarified that "there is no evidence of misuse of the data." In any case, he assured that the facts have been reported to the State Security Forces so they can conduct the appropriate investigations and, above all, determine what data the student may have obtained.

The events have led the Socialist Parliamentary Group to demand the urgent appearance of Education Minister Rocío Lucas in Parliament to explain these events. This was announced by Education spokesperson Fernando Pablos, who, by acknowledging the cyberattack that "has put the personal data of teachers, students, and their families at risk," said the politician from Soria "is also acknowledging that she lied before the Parliament," referring to her statement on June 10 in response to a parliamentary question.

In this regard, sources from the Ministry denied this claim, highlighting that Lucas confirmed that on that day an "attempted unauthorized access" was reported in the minutes of the session. "If we receive news of any attempted unauthorized access, such as the one that recently occurred, we act immediately and open an appropriate investigation into the origin and scope of the incident," the minister stated in Parliament. Therefore, her department concludes that "it is false that he denied the facts" and did specify that there was no evidence of data being stolen from any account.

However, for Pablos, Lucas now has only "two options." Either give explanations "immediately and transparently" or "resign. " "The illicit acquisition of data on thousands of people in the Community is very serious, and equally serious is the fact that, knowing it, he lied in the plenary session of parliament," the Salamanca native insisted.