Florida Department of Education: Student Financial Aid website possible data breach
Add to my breach checkMade public · about 4.9 million people
What leaked7
Hard to replace
- Mobile number
- Home or delivery address
- Email address
Permanent
- Social Security number
- Date of birth
- Full name
- Gender
- Mobile numberphone number · type not stated
- Gendergender identification code
To-dos11 · about 2 h 30 min in all
- Freeze your credit at Equifax, Experian and TransUnionStops: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
- Get an IRS Identity Protection PINStops: tax refund fraud (opens in a new tab)
- Know the scam pattern: calls and texts that cite these leaked detailsLimits harm from: scam calls, phishing messages
- Place a fraud alert on your credit reportsLimits harm from: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
- Check your credit reports every week, freeHelps you notice: credit in your name (opens in a new tab)
6 more
- Do nowTurn on instant transaction alertsHelps you notice: scam calls
- This weekTurn on your carrier's port-out lockLimits harm from: SIM swap
- This weekTurn on your carrier's SIM-change lockLimits harm from: SIM swap
- This weekFreeze your NCTUE phone and utility fileLimits harm from: phone or utility account (opens in a new tab)
- This weekRemove your address and phone from public profiles and tighten SNS privacyLimits harm from: visits or contact at home
- This weekUse an authenticator app or passkey instead of SMS codesLimits harm from: SMS code theft
What happened next5 events
- UndetectedNone on record
- Response 5 eventsNo individual notice on record · show events
- RemedyNone on record
- PenaltyNone on record
- DisputesNone on record
- By this date, took the financial aid website down
- By this date, said the incident was contained
- By this date, reported the incident to the Florida attorney general's office
- Said about 4.9 million people may have been affected
- Became aware of a data breach involving the Florida Student Financial Aid website
- Company
- Florida Department of Education
- Company detected it
- Made public
- Notice
- Possible leak
- Affected
- about 4.9 million people · approx.; may have been affected; FLDOE's figure as reported by the press
Sources
- ABC7 Sarasota press (opens in a new tab)checked November 6, 2026
- The Record press (opens in a new tab)checked November 6, 2026