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Florida financial aid site breach exposes 4.9 million
SSNs and contact details of applicants were taken.
- Organisation
- Florida Dept of Education
- Disclosed
- 30 October 2026
- Affected
- 4,900,000
- Data
- SSNs, names, addresses, DOBs
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- CM Alliance monthly roundup ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Florida financial aid site breach exposes 4.9 million”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 30 Oct 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-10-30-florida-dept-of-education-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CM Alliance monthly roundup, https://www.cm-alliance.com/cybersecurity-blog/biggest-cyber-attacks-data-breaches-ransomware-attacks-october-2026.
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