education.gov.uk
Jul 16, 2025
Data breach from the UK Department for Education (DfE) containing exports from two internal CRM portals: the Help Portal and the Turing Portal. The data includes accounts (training providers, schools, trusts, NHS bodies, police forces), contact records (names, emails, phone numbers, job titles), and incident/case records. The Turing Portal data relates to the Alan Turing Institute scheme for education. Records span from 2024 through at least July 2025, suggesting the data was exfiltrated around that time.
Data found in this dataset
Source files
Expand any file to inspect its column headers and the LLM's field-mapping reasoning, recorded during ingestion.
dfe__help_portal__accounts__records.csv3 columns64,095 rows
File structure
Format: CSV·Delimiter: Comma·Has header: yes·Quote: "
| Source column | Mapped field | Confidence | LLM assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | address1 | high | [5] header 'address1_line1', values are street addresses |
| 6 | address2 | high | [6] header 'address1_composite', values are combined address lines |
| 7 | zip | high | [7] header 'address1_postalcode', values match UK postal code format |
Notes: Only address fields identified as PII in the first 50 rows. Other columns contain internal IDs, status codes, and entity names which are not personally identifiable.
dfe__help_portal__contacts__records.csv3 columns564,374 rows
File structure
Format: CSV·Delimiter: Comma·Has header: yes·Quote: "
| Source column | Mapped field | Confidence | LLM assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lastName | high | header "lastname" resolves to PII field "lastName" |
| 2 | firstName | high | header "firstname" resolves to PII field "firstName" |
| 3 | high | header "emailaddress1" resolves to PII field "email" |
Notes: Heuristic auto-detection: header-named PII columns confirmed by data conformance
dfe__help_portal__incidents__records.csv53 rows
File structure
Notes: Unstructured fallback: no PII columns mapped, but the raw text carries emails
dfe__turing_portal__contacts__records.csv3 columns6,772 rows
File structure
Format: CSV·Delimiter: Comma·Has header: yes·Quote: "
| Source column | Mapped field | Confidence | LLM assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | high | header "emailaddress1" resolves to PII field "email" | |
| 3 | firstName | high | header "firstname" resolves to PII field "firstName" |
| 5 | lastName | high | header "lastname" resolves to PII field "lastName" |
Notes: Heuristic auto-detection: header-named PII columns confirmed by data conformance