Robbie Meredith reports: Parents have been told to be alert for unexpected emails or phone calls after a Northern Ireland school app used by almost 50,000 people was affected by a data breach. The Equipple app is used by many schools to schedule and book meetings between parents and teachers. There have been concerns that...

November 3, 2026: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Ryan James Roach, 35 of Saskatchewan, Canada, and Mathiew James Stubbings, 41, of Ontario, Canada, with conspiracy to obtain information from a protected computer and to cause damage to a protected computer, obtaining information from a...

Iceland Review reports: A security breach affected Inna, the student-information system used by Icelandic upper-secondary schools. It allowed a student to attempt to alter other pupils’ grades and attendance records. Iceland’s Data Protection Authority has received three notifications, while schools and the system operator are still investigating what information may have been accessed. Schools discovered...

Nicole Wootton-Cane reports: At least 320,000 school files stolen during a cyber attack on Bristol City Council’s servers have been found posted to the dark web. Hackers targeted the council’s Trading with Schools platform and accessed data from 39 schools across the region in September. The council said specialist investigations have now identified a “significant...

Killingly Public Schools (“KPS”), a school district located in Killingly, Connecticut, was the victim of a recent data privacy incident involving certain personally identifiable information (“PII”). What Happened: In October 2025, KPS detected a disruption to its computer network. Upon learning of the activity, KPS took immediate action to secure its systems which included taking...

Eric Weiss reports: The Florida Department of Education says a breach of its student financial aid website may have exposed personal information, including Social Security numbers, belonging to approximately 4.9 million people. The department said staff learned of unauthorized criminal access to the Florida Student Financial Aid website on Oct. 19. It activated cybersecurity response...

Kalleigh Lane reports: If your school district used Frontline Central or School Health Management, your Social Security number, date of birth, or government ID could have been caught up in a cybersecurity incident. That risk applies to some adults and minors whose information was processed through those products. Frontline Education announced Oct. 26, 2026, that...

In previous litigation involving Illuminate (J.M. v. Illuminate Educ. Inc.), the district court held that Illuminate could be considered a provider of healthcare under the wording of the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act. With that opinion as precedent, PowerSchool failed to get plaintiffs’ complaint referring to it as a provider of healthcare dismissed. But...

Multiple Ontario Crime Stoppers organizations have suspended use due to Navigate360’s data breach and unacceptable incident response; U.S. state education departments are collaborating to seek more answers from Navigate360; an update from DataBreaches.net. Toronto Crime Stoppers didn’t take long to respond after Valérie Ouellet and Michelle Allan dove into the Crime Stoppers data in the...

Bill Toulas reports: The University of Copenhagen in Denmark confirmed that hackers accessed one of its test environments containing personal data belonging to 525,000 people. The educational organization detected the breach last Tuesday and disclosed it on Friday. In an update yesterday, the university added another 20,000 staff and students whose PIN codes were exposed....

Eric He and Tyler Katzenberger report: Personal information about millions of California students was stolen in a hack of a non-profit organization that contracts with the state’s Department of Education, officials announced Friday. The names, addresses, demographic information and disability status of all 7 million students enrolled in California public schools over the past three...

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The Slate Valley Unified School District in Fair Haven, Vermont, has been responding to a security incident since September 3. On October 2, Kairos threat actors contacted DataBreaches to alert us to the incident and their response to the district’s claim that they believed student data had not been compromised. They were also angry that...

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Shannon Moudy reports: Some systems are offline Monday after Spokane Public Schools says it experienced an overnight ‘network security incident.’ In an email sent to families Monday, the district says the situation is being investigated. “Out of an abundance of caution, we have chosen to take several of our systems offline. As a result, families...

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Emma Kirk reports: A school in Perth’s north has been targeted in a cyber attack, with hackers stealing students and families’ personal information. St James Anglican School, in Perth’s north, identified a cyber breach involving unauthorised access into its computer systems. Parents were advised the school immediately contained the cyber security incident and secured its...

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Joseph Topping reports an incident at the School District of Monroe in Wisconsin has resulted in the district pulling the plug on internet connections: Students powered down computers, school phone service failed and a scheduled ACT session was canceled after a possible network security issue disrupted the School District of Monroe in Wisconsin. Classes continued...

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Urijah Jaushlin reports: Two Lamesa ISD employees were arrested in connection with a law enforcement investigation involving allegations of a breach of computer security, according to a press release by the Lamesa Independent School District Friday morning. The Lamesa Police Department announced in a press release that authorities, along with the Texas Rangers, arrested 54-year-old...

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DysruptionHub reports: A cyberattack forced Salida School District in Colorado to shut down its network June 29, damaging locally stored files and disrupting administrative operations, the district said. The attack began about 6:30 a.m. and was detected two hours later, according to a July 2 district notice. Officials took all systems offline and brought in specialists...

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Joseph Topping reports: Westfield Public Schools in New Jersey kept classrooms open during a districtwide network outage that disrupted communications and digital instruction throughout the first week of school. The district initially attributed the outage to equipment failure. “We have confirmed that a networking hardware failure caused the disruption across all district schools and offices,”...

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Carolyn Rodriguez reports: Springfield Public Schools will be closed Tuesday after a cyber incident disrupted systems necessary for essential school operations, Superintendent Dr. Sonia Dinnall announced Monday. According to the district, the closure will help the district continue its response efforts while investigators assess the extent of the incident. “We understand that an unexpected closure...

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