University of Edinburgh
340K student and staff records stolen
Education Sector Data Breaches (398 indexed)
University of Melbourne
450K student and staff records exposed
Keio University (Japan)
180K student records exposed
Western Michigan University
38K student records exposed
Stanford University (DPAS)
27K individuals affected — admissions and financial data stolen in Akira ransomware attack
University of British Columbia (Canada)
120K student and research records exposed via phishing campaign targeting lab staff
Highline Public Schools (WA)
Ransomware forced school district to cancel classes for 17,500 students
Jefferson County Schools (Alabama)
96K student records exposed after ransomware attack — grades and discipline records leaked
McGill University (Quebec)
180K student and research records compromised via phishing campaign targeting faculty email
Texas Tech University Health Sciences
1.4M patient records exposed in ransomware attack on academic medical center
UBC (British Columbia)
890K student records exposed in vendor breach
Princeton University
15K student and faculty records exposed via compromised research computing cluster
University of Michigan
Student and employee SSNs exposed after unauthorized access to multiple systems
University of New Brunswick
150K student records compromised
Technische Universitat Munchen
210K student records compromised
University of Florida
86K student records and research grant data exposed via compromised department servers
National Student Clearinghouse (MOVEit)
890 colleges and universities affected — student enrollment and degree records exposed
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
210K student records compromised
University of Manchester
1.1M student and staff records stolen in ransomware
Alabama Education Department
Student PII and employee records compromised in state education systems breach
University of California San Francisco
80K patient and research participant records exposed via compromised research database
Seoul National University
210K student records compromised
Universite Paris-Saclay
180K student records compromised
McGill University
340K student records compromised in phishing