{"id":241127,"date":"2026-05-07T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/report-data-breaches-impacted-9m-north-carolinians-in-2025-wral-com\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:25:09","slug":"report-data-breaches-impacted-9m-north-carolinians-in-2025-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/report-data-breaches-impacted-9m-north-carolinians-in-2025-wral-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Data breaches impacted 9M+ North Carolinians in 2025 :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/data-breach-north-carolina-millions-may-2026\/\">Report: Data breaches impacted 9M+ North Carolinians in 2025 :: WRAL.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/data-breach-north-carolina-millions-may-2026\/\">https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/data-breach-north-carolina-millions-may-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 14:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wral.com\">www.wral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each year, since at least 2023, the number of data breaches<br \/>\nin North Carolina have been identified as \u201crecord breaking\u201d by the state\u2019s<br \/>\njustice department.<\/p>\n<p>WRAL Investigates dug through the\u00a0latest report from the NC<br \/>\nDepartment of Justice after learning of another data breach impacting students<br \/>\nand staff across the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Wake County Public School System, they were<br \/>\nnotified of a<br \/>\ncybersecurity incident involving Canvas, a statewide learning management<br \/>\nsystem run by Instructure. District leaders said they believe student and staff<br \/>\ndata may have been accessed.<\/p>\n<p>The NCDOJ report shows a total of 2,349 data breaches,<br \/>\nimpacting more than nine million North Carolinians. Most of the time, criminals<br \/>\nuse hacking or phishing methods to get access to sensitive information.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation also publishes annual<br \/>\nreports more broadly focused on cyber-enabled crime. The FBI reports North<br \/>\nCarolinians lost $431,561,716 to internet crimes across 25,940 complaints.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DOJ report, 155 security breaches affected the<br \/>\neducation industry. That makes up seven percent of all breaches in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchools hold massive amounts of sensitive data, but often<br \/>\nthey rely heavily on third party vendors. Attackers target educational<br \/>\ninstitutions, because one breach can impact thousands of students and staff all at<br \/>\nonce. In many cases, the goal is really extortion, phishing or selling the data,\u201d<br \/>\nsaid Kimberly Simon.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s the CEO of Growth Office Partners, a company that<br \/>\nhelps&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/data-breach-north-carolina-millions-may-2026\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: Data breaches impacted 9M+ North Carolinians in 2025 :: WRAL.com https:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/data-breach-north-carolina-millions-may-2026\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-07&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.wral.com\/17bceb76-8a35-54bb-89d1-612f4137a127?w=1200&h=630","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[30,25,57],"class_list":["post-241127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-breach","tag-phishing","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241129,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241127\/revisions\/241129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}