Hacker wipes 13,000 student devices via Mobile Guardian
An attacker breached the Mobile Guardian classroom management platform and remotely wiped about 13,000 iPads and Chromebooks, mostly in Singapore schools.
- Service
- Mobile Guardian
- Date
- 4 August 2024
- Cause
- Cyberattack
- Duration
- Not stated or multi-day
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- CM-Alliance ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Hacker wipes 13,000 student devices via Mobile Guardian”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 4 Aug 2024. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2024-08-04-mobile-guardian-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CM-Alliance, https://www.cm-alliance.com/cybersecurity-blog/august-2024-biggest-cyber-attacks-data-breaches-ransomware-attacks.
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