Threat Pulse 62High
Florida student financial aid website breach may expose 4.9 million people, including SSNs
Severity 7ActiveconfirmedEducationGovernment

The Florida Department of Education says an unauthorized party accessed the Florida Student Financial Aid website (found Oct 19, site taken offline). Data may include Social Security numbers, names, birth dates, addresses, phones and email addresses of past applicants.

What to do: Nov 2: SecurityWeek confirms the 4.9 million figure.

· 17 days ago · fldoe.org
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@EducationFLverifiedOct 29, 17:09 UTC

At this time, we believe the data breach was limited to the Florida Student Financial Aid website. For Floridians who may have been impacted, we recommend taking the following precautions. For ongoing updates, please visit http://fldoe.org/databreach If yo

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@DarkWebInformerverifiedOct 30, 18:28 UTC

🚨🇺🇸 Florida financial aid breach potentially exposes data of 4.9 million people The Florida Department of Education says an unauthorized party accessed the Florida Student Financial Aid website, potentially exposing information belonging to people who previou

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@SecurityWeekverifiedNov 2, 14:46 UTC

Florida Student Aid Website Hack Puts Data of 4.9 Million People at Risk

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