Florida Student Aid Website Hack Puts Data of 4.9 Million People at Risk
The Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) says hackers breached its student financial aid website, potentially exposing the personal information of roughly 4.9 million people.
The department discovered the intrusion on October 19. It says it launched its incident response procedures after detecting the threat and has since contained the breach.
“At this time, we believe the incident was limited to the Florida Student Financial Aid website (FloridaStudentFinancialAidSG.org) and may have impacted approximately 4.9 million individuals,” the department said.
The website is the online hub for Florida’s state-funded scholarship and grant programs. FLDOE warns that anyone who has applied for financial aid in the state in the past could be among those affected.
Names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and gender codes are among the data types the attackers may have accessed.
“Not all individuals were necessarily affected, and the specific information involved may...
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