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Bristol City Council has published a list of 39 schools whose data could have been stolen in the September cyber attack, the BBC reports. Bristol Hospital Education Service and Filton Avenue Nursery School are among them, but the council says it has not yet established which schools or people were affected.

The list gives families and staff a clearer reason to watch for the council’s investigation updates, not a definitive roll-call of people whose data was exposed. The BBC says the council advises caution with unexpected messages, avoiding unsolicited links and attachments, using unique passwords and enabling two-factor authentication where available.

Discuss: Should councils publish provisional affected-school lists early, even when they cannot yet say whose data was taken?

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