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Florida Virtual School data breach (2018)

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.

Victim
Florida Virtual School
records
542.9K
SectorEducation

Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2018-02-12, Florida Virtual School was affected by a data breach. Approximately 542,902 accounts were exposed. 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.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#FloridaVirtualSchool
  2. flvs.nethttps://flvs.net

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