Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) Data Breach
The Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) confirmed in October 2026 that its online Florida Student Financial Aid portal, administered by the Office of Student Financial Assistance (OSFA), suffered a major cybersecurity intrusion.
Exposed Data Types
11- Names
- Social security numbers
- Dates of birth
- Email addresses
- Physical addresses
- Phone numbers
- Genders
- Bank account numbers
- User IDs
- Passwords
- Security questions and answers
About This Breach
Forensic reviews indicated that personal and financial records belonging to approximately 4,900,000 current and former students, scholarship applicants, and educators were exposed.
Compromised data fields included full names, Social Security numbers (SSNs), dates of birth, residential addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, gender markers, portal user IDs, passwords, security questions and answers, and bank account and routing numbers used for grant or scholarship disbursements.
Verification and editorial method
LeakData compares the incident name, date, affected-record count, and exposed data types with accessible sources. Unverified fields are not presented as facts, and records are updated when new evidence becomes available.
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