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Data stolen from 39 Bristol schools leaked on the dark web
More than 320,000 files were published; the council has not yet confirmed who is affected.
- Organisation
- Bristol schools (Bristol City Council)
- Disclosed
- 4 November 2026
- Affected
- Not stated
- Data
- School files including children's data
- Attacker
- Unknown
- Severity
- major
- Region
- UK
- Source
- Computing ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Data stolen from 39 Bristol schools leaked on the dark web”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 4 Nov 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-11-04-bristol-schools-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Computing, https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/security/hackers-leak-sensitive-data-stolen-from-39-bristol-schools.
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