US schools have lost 24.5 million records in breaches since 2005

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US schools have lost 24.5 million records in breaches since 2005
July 2, 2020
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A report from Comparitech has looked into cyberattacks on educational institutions in the United States, finding that there have been more than 1,300 breaches since 2005 and more than 24 million records lost.

Comparitech data researcher Sam Cook dug deeper into the data and discovered that every state besides Wyoming has reported at least one breach since 2005, with California and Arizona suffered from the most amount of records lost.
The years with the most number of records lost were 2013 and 2017. The study data shows that public schools and universities often suffered from more breaches than private ones.

"If we take a look at the number of breaches by US state, we can see that California had the most by far, accounting for 157 of the 1,328 breaches (11.8 percent)," the report found.
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California remains a hotspot, according to the report, "yet Arizona becomes one of the worst-hit states with only slightly fewer people affected in its breaches than California (2.83 million compared to 2.88 million).
West Virginia and Georgia also display high numbers of records affected in contrast to the number of breaches with 1.3 million and 1.6 million records impacted, respectively.
California leads in breaches and records lost
Cook honed in specifically on Arizona, which had a large number of records lost in comparison to the paltry number of breaches.

"This arises from a large breach which affected almost 2.5 million records from Maricopa Community Colleges. The college system came under fire due to the length of time it took to notify those involved (seven months). The cleanup reportedly cost $26 million," Cook wrote.
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Comparitech: US schools leaked 24.5 million records in 1,327 data breaches since 2005

Our team of researchers analyzed data over the past 15 years to find out where the hot spots are, the biggest causes of these breaches, and how many students have been affected by each breach.
Wyoming is the only state to have had no known or reported K–12 or college data breaches over the last 14 years.
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