Florida Virtual School data breach: 542K accounts exposed
Severity: high · Patch status: no-fix-needed · Since 2018-03-18
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: dates of birth, email addresses, names, passwords, school grades (class levels), usernames. The breach dates from Feb 12, 2018; Have I Been Pwned loaded it on Mar 18, 2018.
What to do
- If you had a Florida Virtual School account, change its password and the password of any other account that reused it.
- Turn on multi-factor authentication wherever it is offered.
- Check whether your addresses are in this breach at https://haveibeenpwned.com.
- Expect targeted phishing that quotes the leaked details; verify any unexpected contact out of band.
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