F
F
Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
543K
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
6
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2018
FLVS

Breach History

FLVS
Feb 2018Critical
542.9K
Records exposed
6
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

In March 2018, the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) posted a data breach notification to their website. The school had identified a data breach which had occurred sometime between 6 May 2016 and 12 Feb 2018 and an XML file containing 368k student records was subsequently found circulating. Each record contained student name, date of birth, password, grade, email and parent email resulting in a total of 543k unique email addresses. Due to the prevalence of email addresses belonging to individuals who are still legally children, the data breach has been flagged as "sensitive".

Exposed Data Types
Dates of birthEmail addressesNamesPasswordsSchool grades (class levels)Usernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Dates of birthMedium risk
Email addressesLow risk
NamesLow risk
PasswordsHigh risk
School grades (class levels)Low risk
UsernamesLow risk