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Hackers claim massive data theft from thousands of students across 3000 Italian schools
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Fusion42 · 24 August 2026 · Fusion42 review
A cybercriminal group claims to have stolen 6.1 TB of data from over 3,000 Italian schools via Gruppo Spaggiari Parma, a key education technology provider. The stolen data allegedly includes personal, medical, and identity information of students and teachers, although the breach has yet to be independently verified.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Education Tech.
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Your education tech product just became a major target. Attacks on central platforms owning student data can put thousands of schools at risk, so you must urgently review your data security and privacy safeguards.
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1 source · 24 Aug 2026
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