York University breach exposes 19 years of student health and financial data
Archived webform submissions from 2007 through October 2026 were taken across 14 faculties, and no group has claimed the attack.
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Idaho district cancels classes after a network cyber threat
New Plymouth took computers and its network offline and plans to resume classes on November 16.
Lake County schools sue parent to destroy mistaken student-record upload
An employee sent eight unredacted files with education and disability data on about 47,000 students.
OpenAI reports an AI guidance gap in EMEA education partnerships
ThinkYoung says 79% of surveyed students used AI for assignments, while only 47% were shown how.
Frontline Education Data Breach Affects Over 3 Million People
Hackers exploited a third-party vulnerability to steal personal data of over 3 million students and employees.
Northern Ireland school app Equipple hit by data breach
Parents of users of an app used by almost 50,000 people were told to watch for unexpected emails or calls.
DuckDuckGo pitches to schools amid Google AI backlash
DuckDuckGo targets schools after Google allows turning off Gemini while keeping other AI features.
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Google disables Search AI in schools rejecting Gemini features
Schools rejecting AI must lose Search access entirely; no separate Gemini toggle available.
Google will disable K-12 AI tools unless schools opt in
Schools that block AI lose Google Search, because Google says search and AI features are now inseparable.
Schools that block Google A.I. will lose student access to its search engine
Google will disable AI features in K-12 search unless schools opt in, starting early 2027.
Google adds Guided Learning to Search and Classroom, AI off for K-12
Search starts as a U.S. school pilot; Classroom is global today; Gemini and Search stay off until admins opt in.
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Frontline Education data breach impacts affected individuals
The company provides credit monitoring for affected adults and dark-web monitoring for minors.
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Killingly Public Schools detects unauthorized network access
No evidence of PII misuse for fraud or identity theft; passwords were reset and multi-factor authentication continues.
Attackers use CyberStrikeAI to direct intrusions at schools
Kaspersky says a human operator used an LLM on the C2 server to pick tools while Go beacons ran commands on compromised hosts.
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CyberStrikeAI agents used in Windows domain takeovers
Securelist says education networks in Africa and Latin America were taken from SQL Server to domain admin in days.
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Lab2Sim benchmark turns science videos into interactive experiments
Lab2Sim provides 218 videos and EduVideo2Code improves apparatus fidelity by 24.15 points.
Florida financial aid breach exposed data of 4.9 million people
The state learned of the breach on October 19, took the site down, and says aid payments are unaffected.
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Florida education department says breach may affect 4.9 million people
Unauthorized access to the student financial aid site, found October 19, may have exposed Social Security numbers.
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Frontline school software breach exposed SSNs and Medicaid IDs
Frontline began notices on October 26 for an August 2026 incident and has not given a nationwide victim count.
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MIT professor Eric So says routine AI use dulls thinking
In a Boston Globe interview he describes a use-it-or-lose-it cycle and a student outsourcing diagnoses to a bot.
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AI Cosmos reports larger learning gains than LLM baselines
Two preregistered studies found stronger legal-reasoning gains and better mastery of unseen programming problems.
Court denies dismissal in PowerSchool breach litigation
Judge Battaglia kept CMIA and negligence claims alive in an MDL over data on about 50 million students and educators.
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Ontario Crime Stoppers suspend Navigate360 tip lines after leak
A hacktivist obtained 8.3 million tips; Nevada says about 10 percent of SafeVoice tips with PII were exposed.
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University of Copenhagen breach exposes data of 525,000 people
Hackers reached a test environment, and a later update said PIN codes of another 20,000 staff and students were exposed.