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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.

5544
Incidents recorded since Jul 2011
1,900+
Incidents this year
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Education Sector Data Breaches (20523 indexed)

critical · tech · Aug 24, 2022

Plex

15M user accounts including emails and encrypted passwords compromised

View incident → Indexed 4 years, 1 month ago
medium · retail · Aug 24, 2022

Sephora

78K customer records exposed, $1.2M CCPA fine

View incident → Indexed 4 years, 1 month ago
high · finance · Aug 18, 2022

Banorte

2,107,000 records exposed, Account balances, Email addresses, Genders, Government issued IDs and 3 more

View incident → Indexed 4 years, 1 month ago
critical · healthcare · Aug 17, 2022

Novant Health

1.36M patient records shared via Facebook Pixel tracking

View incident → Indexed 4 years, 1 month ago
critical · retail · Aug 17, 2022

SitePoint

1,021,790 records exposed, Bios, Email addresses, IP addresses, Names and 2 more

View incident → Indexed 4 years, 1 month ago
medium · finance · Aug 16, 2022

Shitexpress

23,817 records exposed, Email addresses, IP addresses, Names, Physical addresses and 2 more

View incident → Indexed 4 years, 1 month ago
medium · finance · Aug 15, 2022

Wealthsimple

Social engineering attack targeted employee accounts

View incident → Indexed 4 years, 1 month ago