Protecting Schools Against Edtech Vendor Data Breaches An American edtech company faced a significant data leak in 2021, with a hacker gaining access to the information of 10.1 million students, including their email and home addresses, birth dates and medical information. After the initial attack, the company failed to notify some school districts of the breach for more than two years, leaving the information of more than 380,000 students at continued risk. Data breaches can destroy trust between administrators and vendors as well as schools and families.