INCIDENT REPORT · CP-2026-013
Florida Student Financial Aid Website Breach
L3 · ELEVATEDCONFIRMED
The Florida Department of Education announced on Oct 29, 2026 that hackers gained unauthorized access to the state's student financial aid website, discovered on Oct 19, potentially exposing data on about 4.9 million people. The department has not said how the intrusion occurred, and no group had claimed it.
- Incident ID
- CP-2026-013
- Disclosure date
- 29 OCT 2026
- Detection date
- 19 OCT 2026
- Affected countries
- United States
- Plotted location
- Tallahassee, United States (Affected agency headquarters)
- Threat classification
- Level 3 — ELEVATED
- Classification rationale
- State-government breach potentially exposing SSNs of about 4.9 million people.
- Attack type
- Data Breach
- Nature
- Malicious activity
- Attack vector
- Not publicly documented
- Sectors
- Government, Education
- Critical infrastructure
- No
- Organizations affected
- Florida Department of Education
- Operational consequences
- Potentially exposed data includes Social Security numbers, names, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of past state financial-aid applicants; the aid website was disrupted, though the department said disbursements and eligibility were unaffected. The Florida Digital Service and Florida Department of Law Enforcement are assisting.
- Estimated financial impact
- No reliably documented figure
- Attribution (as stated)
- No official attribution recorded
SOURCE REFERENCES
- [1] Florida Student Aid Website Hack Puts Data of 4.9 Million People at RiskSecurityWeek · securityweek.com
- [2] Hackers breach Florida Department of Education systems, officials sayWKMG ClickOrlando · clickorlando.com · 29 OCT 2026
- [3] Data breach noticeFlorida Department of Education · fldoe.org
RECORD CREATED 14 NOV 2026 · LAST UPDATED 14 NOV 2026 · Threat levels are editorial assessments, not official government ratings.