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Education Sector Data Breaches

Universities, K-12 districts, and ed-tech vendors hold massive student-record databases that attract identity-theft operations and ransomware groups. Below is every education-sector breach LeakTrace has indexed.

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Education Sector Data Breaches (11270 indexed)

medium · government · Aug 12, 2026

FBI

Leaked passwords, social engineering and spoofed social media sites are among the tools hackers are using to gather individuals' private content and sell it online, the FBI said.

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 2 weeks, 6 days ago
high · healthcare · Aug 12, 2026

Adam Haertle

Adam Haertle reports: MyDr has just announced that it is investigating a serious security incident on its network. The alleged perpetrators of this incident contacted us earlier and claimed to have access to patient data

View incident → Original disclosure Indexed 2 weeks, 6 days ago