Florida Virtual School Data Breach

What happened?

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. Due to the prevalence of email addresses belonging to individuals who are still legally children, the data breach has been flagged as "sensitive".

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is February 12, 2018. The record was added to the catalogue on March 18, 2018 and last updated there on March 18, 2018.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Dates of birth
• Email addresses
• Names
• Passwords
• School grades (class levels)
• Usernames

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with Florida Virtual School or used flvs.net around February 12, 2018. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

What should you do?

Choose actions that match the information involved. If you find signs that someone is using your identity, the Federal Trade Commission provides a personal recovery plan at IdentityTheft.gov.