Düsseldorf.
Shortly after the technical glitch at the start of the Abitur in NRW, the Ministry of Education discovered another IT vulnerability. The Abi is not affected.
A few days after the Abitur technical breakdown in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Ministry of Education became aware of another IT weakness in the Ministry’s business area. The central high school is expressly not affected by this weakness, the ministry emphasized on Monday. Since the download disruption last Tuesday, all download processes related to the Abitur have run normally.
The vulnerability was discovered on Thursday on a server of the “Quality and Support Agency – State Institute for Schools NRW” (QUA-LiS NRW), the Ministry of Education reported. Schools would have the opportunity to test the functionality of school hardware and software all year round via a test server. Teachers can access it at any time.
IT processes of the state institute put to the test
This system made it possible to read 500 user data from another, internal working platform of QUA-LiS NRW – for example user name and e-mail address. This possibility of access was immediately stopped after it became known last Thursday, the ministry said. The users were informed accordingly and asked to change their passwords as a precaution. A spokesman said the information about the vulnerability came from specialists at the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
School Minister Dorothee Feller (CDU) ordered that all IT processes of the state institute should now be put to the test. “We’re looking at everything very carefully here. This analysis has absolute priority. There must be clarity here as to how the vulnerability came about,” she said, according to the statement.
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