15 Oct 2026 · HIPAA Journal
DentaQuest suffered a cyberattack by the ShinyHunters extortion group, which gained unauthorized access to its network in May 2026. The threat actors exfiltrated 234 …
Schools
Parents and staff trust email in your school's name.
Tuition payments, report cards and staff payroll changes all travel by email. Attackers read your domain. We read it first and show you what is open.
Attackers now use AI to read a school from outside the way a search engine does: the website, directories, search results and what AI assistants say. Each finding we hand you is human-verified before your assessment is released.
Outside reads onlyNot a pen testHuman-verified72 hours to your documents
Rules that apply to youMapped per finding
FTC Act Section 5
Unfair or deceptive security practices
State breach notification laws
Notice to affected residents
Also in Canada
PIPEDA Principle 4.7, PIPEDA s. 10.1 and 10.3, Quebec Law 25
Each finding mapped to the rule it touches in the Rules and Insurance Briefing, so you can show your regulator what you checked and fixed.
When you must report
The reporting deadlines that apply to you.
US, every state
Varies by state
State breach notification laws
Notify affected residents when certain personal information is breached. Timing and content differ.
Canada, federal
As soon as feasible
PIPEDA
Report a breach that creates a real risk of significant harm to the Privacy Commissioner, and tell the people affected.
Quebec
Promptly
Quebec Law 25
Notify the Commission d'accès à l'information and the people concerned of an incident that risks serious injury, and keep a register of every confidentiality incident.
Your deadline
Varies by state
State breach notification laws
A summary of published rules, not legal advice. The Rules and Insurance Briefing names the rules that apply to you.
01 · This week, across all schools
Nothing reported for this sector this week. What attackers used elsewhere, and what we check for it.
14 Oct 2026 · Security Affairs
Way in
A known flaw in software the victim ran.
We check
Software versions your site advertises and known flaws in them.
14 Oct 2026 · BleepingComputer
Way in
Email made to look like it came from a trusted sender.
We check
Whether anyone can send mail that passes as your domain.
Recent cases in your line of work
Payment fraud, from the public record.
7 Aug 2026
In June 2026 the Bedford Area School District in Pennsylvania sent a $1.65 million payment meant for the builder renovating its high school to a thief, after an email that appeared to come from the builder changed its payment address. The district recovered the full amount, state police said in August 2026.
February 2026
In February 2026 Dickinson Public Schools in North Dakota said nearly $4.92 million in two scheduled payments had gone to criminals posing as one of its vendors. The report does not say how the email was faked.
17 Dec 2025
In December 2025 the Pine Bluff School District in Arkansas wired $3.2 million against what it took for an invoice from a vendor on the construction of its new high school. The district said in April 2026 that one of its own staff mailboxes had been compromised and false wiring instructions added to the real thread.
Each case is from the public source linked under it, in that source's own terms. LeakTrace had no part in any of them.
Your outside changes
What changes after your assessment, and how often we look.
- 01A new vendor or tool is allowed to send as you.
- 02Your mail moves to a new provider.
- 03A new portal or subdomain goes live.
- 04A certificate lapses.
- 05Your addresses turn up in a fresh breach.
- 06A look-alike of your name is registered.
On monitoring: email settings, look-alikes and new host names hourly; everything else daily, with newly exploited flaws matched to your website’s software within a day and an alert the same day. The first month of monitoring comes with the assessment.
02 · Featured research
Schools · 5 min · Jul 2026
The education cyber exposure where student data and FERPA / provincial statutes converge
What LeakTrace consistently observes across private schools, tutoring operations, and educational institutions. Student data (much of it involving minors) and parallel Canadian and US regulatory obligations create a dis…
03 · What you receive
Human-verified. The full watch, the proof for every finding, and the fix.
1
Owner Summary and Action Brief
For the owner
2
Technical Evidence and Findings
Each finding, with its fix
3
Rules and Insurance Briefing
Privacy rules and insurer questions
4
Signed Assessment Record
Dated record, issued by LeakTrace Inc.
What the fourth document is. A dated record of what was read from outside your school, verified by a person at LeakTrace before release. LeakTrace Inc. issues it as a company, with a reference and a fingerprint anyone can check at getleaktrace.com/verify/. No individual signs it. It is not a certification, not a penetration test, not legal or compliance advice, and not a statement about your internal systems.
A recorded walkthroughA short video of your own dashboard, made at release.
The first month of monitoringYour domain and its addresses watched: email settings, look-alikes and new host names re-checked every hour, with an alert within the hour to a named contact; the rest daily.
We close it: We give you the fix for each finding and re-check from outside until it is closed.
The one change we can make ourselves is to your email records, and only when you approve each step, where your DNS host allows it.
Where it does not, you get the exact records to paste.
Your evidence pack:
- an owner summary
- the technical evidence with the fix for each finding
- a rules and insurance briefing
- a signed assessment record
It doubles as your insurance renewal evidence pack:
- the outside questions insurers commonly ask at renewal, each shown with its evidence
- forged-email protection where we reach your DNS host, one click per step
- where you have a forged-email finding, a personal video of it to forward to the partners and the broker
The assessment comes with an AI security agent on your dashboard: ask it about any finding in plain English and it answers from your own school's findings.
Our AI agents work from outside only. They never log in, never install anything, and never touch your internal systems.
The one change they can make, to your email records, happens only when you approve it.
04 · Check my school
See what is open before anyone else does.
We read from outside, find each way in first, and show it with a check anyone can re-run. No access, nothing tested, no obligation.
What we readPublic sources only
Who sees itYou alone
Delivery72 hours from confirmation
Meeting firstNone
Reading requestPrivate
Received
A person reads your school from outside and emails your outside reading within 72 hours, from [email protected].
What happens next
- We read your school from outside.
- You see what is open, with the proof for the lead finding.
- If it is worth it, you order.
While you wait: the 72 hours · 34 seconds, no sound
What happens if you go ahead. More at getleaktrace.com/see-it-first/.
Read the transcript
- 72 hours. One domain. Nothing to install.
- Discover. Every way in, found from outside.
- Validate. Every finding, proven. Dated and checkable by anyone.
- Close. Forged email: one click per step, where we reach your DNS host and you approve it.
- You get the fix for the rest, step by step, and we re-check until it is closed.
- Monitor. On monitoring: email settings, look-alikes and new host names re-checked every hour. Alerts within the hour.
- Every paid assessment is human-verified before release.
- The AI defense layer for businesses. getleaktrace.com/see-it-first/