Florida Virtual School 2018 Data Breach

Florida Virtual School 2018 Data Breach

Children & Family / Children

Florida Virtual School 2018 Data Breach

A children service in the children & family sector.

Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Limited DisclosureThis breach involves data relating to children. We do not confirm the presence of any individual publicly or to third parties. A parent or guardian can check exposure privately below.
Breach Risk Index i
44/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Moderate: notable exposure with meaningful misuse potential.
Data Sensitivity i
Restricted
Being associated with this breach can itself be harmful. Disclosure is limited and presence is not confirmed to unverified parties.
543KRecords
2018Year

The Breach Risk Index (BRI) is a proprietary 0–100 score rating how dangerous a breach is right now, based on how recently the data has been circulating on the dark web and how valuable it is to attackers.

Crucial data exposed
MinorsChildren / minors
Classification Tags
Children & FamilyChildrenStudents2018

Breach Summary

In March 2018, the Florida Virtual School (FLVS) posted a data breach notification to their website. The school had identified a data breach which had occurred sometime between 6 May 2016 and 12 Feb 2018 and an XML file containing 368k student records was subsequently found circulating. Each record contained student name, date of birth, password, grade, email and parent email resulting in a total of 543k unique email addresses.

Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.

10 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine

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543K records analyzed

About Florida Virtual School

Florida Virtual School is a children service in the children & family sector.

Why They Hold Your Data

Florida Virtual School is a children service in the children & family sector. Services like this typically hold dates of birth, education, email addresses, names, passwords, usernames through account registration and normal operations.

Recent Developments

The Florida Virtual School dataset circulated publicly; treat as part of the standing exposure landscape.

Data Points Exposed

6 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Education Information
Email Address
Full Name
Password High
Username

Breach Impact

The exposure of credentials alongside personal data heightened account-takeover and reuse risk for Florida Virtual School users and drew scrutiny of its data protection.

Exploitation & Downstream Threats

• Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms | • Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination | • Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses

Principal Risk Advisory

What this means for a principal

A breach involving minors: identity data on children carries long-tail identity-theft and safeguarding risk. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.

What You Should Do

  1. Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
  2. Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.

How ObscureIQ Can Help

  1. Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
  2. Exposure mapping: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
  3. ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).

Protect Yourself

Protect Yourself: Limited Disclosure

Check Exposure: Verification Required

Because this breach involves data about minors, we do not confirm whether any individual appears in it to unverified parties. A verified parent, guardian, or the individual can privately check exposure.

We confirm exposure only to the affected individual or their verified parent or guardian.

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