Bristol school support platform hack exposes 320,000 files
Trading with Schools, a school support platform operated by Bristol City Council in the UK, was breached in September, and school data was stolen. More than 320,000 files were subsequently published on the dark web, and 39 schools are being investigated as potentially affected by the data theft. A total of 88 schools were disconnected from the network, and the council and police are analysing the published material to identify the affected schools and individuals and determine the scope of the leaked information.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Bristol City Council
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- More than 320,000 files published; 39 schools potentially affected
- Cause / method
- Breach of the Trading with Schools school support platform and theft of data
- Location
- United Kingdom
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Timeline
- The online publication of more than 320,000 files stolen in the September platform breach was confirmed, prompting the council and police to begin analysing them.
- It emerged that 88 schools had been disconnected from the network and that potential data impacts at 39 schools were under investigation.
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