Stewart Home & School 2025 Data Breach

According to the organization's official notice, attackers used stolen credentials to enter the network on August 4, 2025. The investigation found that data on two internal electronic drives was accessed and exfiltrated before ransomware encrypted the drives.

The information varied by person. The disclosed scope includes names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, and financial information that was not further itemized. Health-insurance information, diagnoses and medical conditions, test results, medications, and education-related evaluation and testing information may also have been involved.

The organization said it engaged outside cybersecurity specialists, reported the event to the FBI and the HHS Office for Civil Rights, and worked on additional safeguards. It offered affected people 24 months of credit monitoring and identity-theft protection and said its notice-date review had found no indication that the information had been misused.

Notice recipients should enroll in the offered protection service and review credit reports, financial-account activity, health-insurance explanations of benefits, and medical records for transactions or changes they do not recognize. They should contact the relevant financial institution, healthcare provider, or Stewart Home & School directly if they find suspicious activity.